Le Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:38:49PM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > I'd second something like this, but I'd first like us to consider if > we really want any non-ASCII characters in filenames. Currently on sid > there does not appear to be many such filenames (64 from my check, if > that's not bogus): > > $ LC_ALL=C zgrep '[^[:print:]]' \ > ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_*_Contents-amd64.gz | wc -l
Hi Guillem and everybody, I had a closer look at these files. * There are dictionaries where the filename is the native name of the language, like català, español, bokmål, etc. In all the case the characters are valid Unicode. I think that it would be fair to allow such cases. * There are names that look rather arbitrary and replaceable with ASCII alternatives if needed. For instance in python-pyramid, usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyramid/tests/fixtures/static/héhé.html * There are CA certificates with names like Certinomis_-_Autorité_Racine.crt. Since I do not know how these certificates work, I do not know if they can be renamed. * There is a file that need to be in non-ASCII Unicode to fit its purpose: usr/share/doc/console-tools/examples/♪♬ in console-tools. The package also distributes a file called README.strange-name in the same directory. * There are some more dubious names like 6Sze¶æ_Jab³ek.png in lletters-media, or Miroir_Sphérique in optgeo. However, they do not cause much inconvenience with a Unicode locale. * The pitivi package gives entries with no obvious Unicode characters, like usr/share/gnome/help/pitivi/C/figures/codecscontainers.jpg. I think that we should at least strongly recommend that if a name looks ASCII then it should be ASCII. * Lastly, there seems to be only a single package that ships non-Unicode filenames, non-free/ooohg with for instance 13_Afr d<U+0082>col.gif. Requiring that all file and directory names are encoded in Unicode and preferably in ASCII would therefore make only one package RC-buggy. Requiring all-ASCII would be also possible with a bit more work, but I am not sure that it would be worth the effort, as most of the current examples above do not require specialised fonts. Altogether, there seems to be a good self-discipline. However, if there are ways to test the following automatically, maybe we should consider requesting that what is displayed ASCII should be ASCII. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
