On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 21:26 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:58 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > If this is really a usability problem I am sure that the proposal to
> > provide an alternate ASCII only name (need rules to determine how you
> > get from non-ASCII to ASCII) is a very good one, even if copy&paste, or
> > other UIs can be used as well.
>
> In bugzilla, I had proposed the opposite:
Me too.
> Mandate ASCII-only _package names_ (=> ASCII-only file names), but
> additionally allow alternative (utf-8) "Provides" if desired.
This still gets my +1. I have no problem with fixing infrastructure for more
UTF-8 awareness though.
So do I.
> This would allow GUI tools to display these utf-names, while it
would
> help keep things simple for command-line tools.
I can't think of a use case where it would be desirable for GUI tools to
display anything else but the package's real name as its name.
Neither do I.
Dunno if this is what you meant.
What I meant was, to allow
people to install packages using their "real"
non-ASCII file names (e.g. yum install écollier-fonts).
As these people had proposed using installer GUIs, I had been referring
to GUI-tools in the sentence above.
Ralf