Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Thu Mar 13 14:44:04 UTC 2008


Alexander Boström wrote:
> RPMs will probably always need names that everyone can type. That limits
> it too Latin-1 (regardless of encoding) 

Please, note that "everyone" cannot type Latin1 .

There are enough countries in the World, where the Latin1 symbols are 
not used at all. Moreover, they did not use ASCII in their culture 
initially. ASCII came later, as a "symbols for the technical English", 
because this language are used for computers for the historical reasons 
(as well as the French is used in diplomacy).

IMHO the issue here is a lack of geography knowledge. Some people 
("kids" in terms of Ralf :) ) actually think that it is possible to 
travell from US to Europe on a car... (without the ferry :) ). Hence it 
is not too surprisingly that they think that all the people in the World 
use latin1 ...


~buc
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