On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:48 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > We could define it as a negative "(ASCII does not include accented > > letters or special symbols like ©)". > > Been there, tried that, anything but a chart or an image like the one you > proposed is not a sufficient cluestick > > > Basically, I think a good portion of anglo-centric packagers won't know > > what the relationship is between ASCII and UTF-8. > > Sure. But a good portion of anglo-centric packagers won't know what ASCII > is either. Try to poll people someday you'll be surprised. > I think trying to make the packaging guidelines explain everything to the level that a random person on the street can understand is a loosing proposition. We can assume that packagers have more interest in these topics than the average computer user. Also we have a review process where any misunderstandings can be clarified in discussion with the reviewer. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
