Bug#99933: Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:22, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > It looks to me like at this point almost everyone agrees with the
> > content of my proposal in #99933, and we are discussing implementation
> > details. Agreed?
>
> I do STRONGLY DISAGREE with
>
> ... Programs included in Debian packages
> should, when creating new files, encode their names in
> UTF-8 by default.
>
> We shouldn't start this before all/most programs can handle
> the generated file names.
If I drop this from my proposal, will you support the rest of it then?
I should note however that many programs are already creating file names
in UTF-8 today; like pretty much any program which uses GTK+ 2 for
instance (including all of GNOME).
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