[Rpm-maint] [Suse patch] Convert changelog and i18n headers to current locale

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Jun 7 07:29:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:56 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I can kinda see the point behind this, but it's just scary. Wouldn't 
> this be a job for iconv or something instead?
> 
> Further, as pointed out here by JBJ, it doesn't really solve the problem 
> of potentially having multiple encodings present in the spec: 
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-March/000931.html
> 
> Character encoding + conversion business makes me want to stick my head 
> into sand (and stay there)...

I think looking at i18n and localisation within rpm is part of a bigger
task I'd rather look at post 4.4.2.1.

Paul




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