RFC: Description text in packages
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 16 01:16:22 UTC 2008
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 15 décembre 2008 à 08:41 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
>> Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over
>> ASCII.
>
> And I'm opposed to continuing to abuse ASCII glyphs and pretend they
> stand for something other than their creators intended. One couldn't
> avoid it when the available encoding didn't provide a clean way to write
> some stuff, but doing it in 2008 is plain dumb.
I must have missed the 'fancy quotes' keys on my keyboard. Not to
mention that ˵˶ don't seem to be in any of the fonts I'm using
(newsreader, terminal, FF's text entry box...) and therefore show up as
ugly boxes.
--
Matthew
Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.
--
Me: wtf?? "#warning This is temporary since Dec 2000". Seven-year
"temporary" code?
Mathieu Chouinard: Sounds like the correct definition of temporary :)
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