Bug#366992: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#366992: debiandoc-sgml: [INTL:uk] Ukrainian language support

[Jens Seidel]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:36:22PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > I committed it. Osamu, I suggest to wait a short time (a week?) before
> > upload so I can more carefully test it. I also have a (still uncommitted)
> > Vietnamese UTF-8 patch which should be part of the next release.
> > 
> > Because of the important UTF-8 support I bumped the version from 1.1.x
> > to 1.2.0.
> 
> Does UTF-8 work for PDF and PS?

Yes, it does! At least using only the basic Russian letters. Adding funny Asian
glyphs will most likely fail.

I also noticed that the SGML tools seems UTF-8 clean. At least it complained
about apt-howto.ru.tex encoded in KOI8-R. After calling iconv it worked!
 
> I doubt it.  So it should be documented it is onlt for plain text and
> HTML.

We need to check the documentation for references to 8bit characters only.

Jens