[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#461022: Bug#461022: description doesn't render in aptitude

[Tomas Pospisek]

On 1/16/2008, "Christian Perrier" <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:

>Quoting Tomas Pospisek (tpo_deb at sourcepole.ch):
>> Package: ttf-ecolier-lignes-court
>> Version: 1.00-1
>> Severity: minor
>> 
>> Probably the description contains some character in an encoding, that my
>> terminal doesn't understand. I suggest changing it into ASCII or UTF8.
>> Notice the 2. last line:
>
>The file *is* UTF-8 from what I see.

I'm looking at it through konsole, which runs bash. Konsole's encoding
is set to "Default". If I set it to UTF8, it still doesn't render.

Which brings up the question to me: how is the encoding storry supposed
to work under Debian? Say the file is UTF8 encoded, which I don't know
how to verify, is every Debian user supposed to run an UTF-8 capable
console these days?

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