Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>  * Ban unicode in package names (no draft submitted)
>   * Not accepted
>   

Oops...
The example of such an unicode name used is "écolier-fonts" .

Then consider any user in non-latin1 locale. For example, my locale is 
Russian. I have no "é" on my keyboard...

Well, I can use cut and paste, when I have a mouse and the text is 
already shown on my desktop.
But what I have to do, when use just the cmdline interface? IOW, without 
any GUI -- just the Linux console, or remote ssh session? How can I fill 
the "é" character then?

It seems that the only way to operate with such a filename is to use 
shell wildcards: "rpm -qa \?colier-fonts"  etc.

Does it mean, that the command line interface as well as any other 
non-GUI core applications are now deprecated? ;)


~buc
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