Re: Introducing NewStuffManager

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Shahms King wrote:
> Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 21:10 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
> >> Lastly. RPM or deb files aren't internationalized either.
> > 
> > I didn't know RPM and deb weren't internationalized.  If that's
> > the case, I think that's a very poor decision on the parts of
> > those developers.  Both of them contain a lot of information
> > that should be translated into the user's language.
>
> Woah there.  I can't say for debs, but RPM files most assuredly are 
> internationalized.  There are some oddities with encodings but packagers

Yeah, so far for the theory. In practice however no-one cares enough. I
think that's what he was refering to.

> can provide locale dependent descriptions (and, I *think* summaries). 
> Fedora, at least, requires that spec files be written using US-ASCII 
> when possible and UTF-8 otherwise, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to 
> write specfiles in other encodings, as problematic as that might be.
>
> --Shahms

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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