package name charsets / fonts

[Toshio Kuratomi]

David Timms wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> nothing-1.0-1.rpm
>>> ничто-1.0-1.rpm
>>> τιποτα δεν-1.0-1.rpm
>>> 没有什么东西-1.0-1.rpm
>>
>> For the last two, the glyphs don't display correctly at all in a virtual
>> console. Not in Emacs either. In Emacs (and likely due to an incomplete
>> font), the last line gives a box for the 4th character.
>>
>> A blocker-criterion in my point of view.
>>
>> Having to find and set a proper font before being able to display the
>> proper glyphs used in [RPM] filenames, reduces usability too much. It
>> feels a lot like those bad books, where the translator also translated 
>> the
>> names of system commands, reserved identifiers, or header names, for 
>> example.
> Sounds like you see different results for the fourth one. I see:
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~timmsy/list-links/rpm.name_glyphs.png
> 
> I have no idea howe I could possible type 2 or 3 ?
> 
badger> LANG=C ls -b *.rpm
\346\262\241\346\234\211\344\273\200\344\271\210\344\270\234\350\245\277-1.0-1.rpm
badger> rm 
$'\346\262\241\346\234\211\344\273\200\344\271\210\344\270\234\350\245\277-1.0-1.rpm'

Annoying, yes.
Impossible, no.

-Toshio

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