[Bug 261881] Review Request: écolier-court-fonts - Ãâ°colier court fonts

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Summary: Review Request: écolier-court-fonts - Écolier court fonts


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=261881





------- Additional Comments From nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net  2008-02-15 04:40 EST -------
(In reply to comment #22)
> OK, I realize we have leak in the FPG, people seem to be keen to exploit.

???

> IMHO, this package name should be rejected, because
> a) It technically means asking for trouble wrt. tools processing rpms/rpm-spec
> (rpmbuild, rpm, yum, apt, yumex, createrepo, db-formats etc.). 
> I am sure at least some of them are not able to process such names.

What's asking for trouble is continuing to ignore UTF-8 handling problems in
low-level rpm tools. All our software stack has been moving to UTF-8 for years,
and in fact our upper package management layers (comps...) already use XML
(which default encoding is UTF-8) pervasively. As far as I know there is *no*
way to restrict XML to a 7-bit encoding like ASCII, and even if it were it's
probably not supported by one or several of the XML libs we use, since it's not
a common need. And if you start using 8-bit encodings UTF-8 is the only one
everyone agrees on.

> b) It is user unfriendly: You can't expect people to be able to type "arbitrary
> exotic characters" on their keyboard.

This is not a problem. The GUI tools do not care, and the package provides an
ascii-7 name alias for CLI users.

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