[Bug 261881] Review Request: écolier-court-fonts - Ãâ°colier court fonts

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Summary: Review Request: écolier-court-fonts - Écolier court fonts


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=261881





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2008-02-15 10:56 EST -------
(In reply to comment #24)
> (In reply to comment #22)
> > OK, I realize we have leak in the FPG, people seem to be keen to exploit.
> 
Yes, I consider this package review/submission as a provocation, trying to
challenge the FGP.

The FPC and rpm missed to specify the precise syntax of rpm.specs.

> > IMHO, this package name should be rejected, because
> > a) It technically means asking for trouble wrt. tools processing rpms/rpm-spec
> > (rpmbuild, rpm, yum, apt, yumex, createrepo, db-formats etc.). 
> > I am sure at least some of them are not able to process such names.
> 
> What's asking for trouble is continuing to ignore UTF-8 handling problems in
> low-level rpm tools.
My view is differently: It is a matter of specification/standardization of the 
"rpm.spec - syntax".

> All our software stack has been moving to UTF-8 for years,
Yes, and? ... this doesn't mean exploing the technical possibilities is
necessary useful. (Think about using non-7bit application names).

> > b) It is user unfriendly: You can't expect people to be able to type "arbitrary
> > exotic characters" on their keyboard.
> 
> This is not a problem.
Well, an acute accent probably is not much of a problem for French folks, but
... would you think the same wrt. non ASCII-chars of other languages?

At least I would be facing the such issues, if packages names (or worse
applicaition) were named in East European, Middle and Far East charsets.

I would not be able find them on my keyboard. I also would be likely not to be
able in GUI tools because I would not have the fonts installed. 

> The GUI tools do not care, and the package provides an
> ascii-7 name alias for CLI users.
These aren't of help, when e.g. ftp'ing a package.

The converse would be applicable: ASCII-file/package-name, utf-8-provides.



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