Le ven 07/11/2003 à 22:54, seth vidal a écrit :
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:43, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu>:
> > > Not a problem. I'll just specify that the input is expected to be
> > > UTF-8 and screw all that multibyte crap. World's going that
> > > direction anyway.
> >
> > ugh - a lot of data in rpms is not utf-8 happy. Often in latin-1 or
> > beyond that in the encoding.
>
> Again, that's OK. The stuff in the message doesn't include the RPM itself,
> One of the fields is optionally an associated-file-resource URL that could
> *point* at an RPM, but that's a different matter.
no I mean things like:
descriptions
vendor names
packager names
summaries
filenames
shall I continue? :)
Ville Skyttä can tell you how people with non-ascii names feel about
UTF-8. He's been actively converting the JPackage spec files to UTF-8
since we agreed on it (I must admit I like UTF-8 but I certainly can not
match Ville's zeal).
UTF-8 is not the problem. Hanging on 8-bit limited encodings is. The
sooner everything is in i18n-resistant formats like xml and unicode the
better I'll feel.
I was quite amused about the FC1 comment on UTF-8 change problems. For
most non-US people the move to UTF-8 was/is just wonderful. If you
think current problems are bad, just try to actually work on a
pre-unicode release using non-ascii encoding.
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Mailhot