Trademarks
Ian Pilcher
i.pilcher at comcast.net
Mon Jul 4 18:04:22 UTC 2005
David Woodhouse wrote:
> Why? I think we all ought to be able to handle UTF-8 now.
I'm pretty sure that there are some locales that still don't use UTF-8
by default. Even if that's not the case, there's certainly nothing
preventing people from using other encodings. Folks that work with a
lot of data in older encodings may well do this.
Until the day comes that there's a hard Unicode-only policy, it seems to
me that the benefits of sticking to ASCII-only in package summaries and
descriptions outweighs the benefits. (Alternatively, RPM could be
enhanced to store everything in UTF-8 and convert to other encodings.)
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