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. > 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. Dunno if this is what you meant. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
