<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 August 2015 at 20:31, Mark Hatle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com" target="_blank">mark.hatle@windriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":u6" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">RPM isn't really utf-8.. it's more single 8-bit characters... UTF-8 (1 byte<br>
characters) work fine.. multibyte are not promised to work.<br>
<br>
If you need special encoding (more then 8-bit characters) then you should be<br>
using 'po' style files to translate the 8-bit chars to localized versions...<br>
<br>
So checking (and fixing) the strings for various things is a good idea for RPM<br>
at least.</div></blockquote></div><br>In the common case of "maintainer's name isn't ASCII" you don't want it translated, and assuming UTF-8 everywhere mostly works.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>