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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Tomas Pospisek (tpo at sourcepole.ch):

> >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.

It does, in the exact same conditions on my system.


> 
> 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?

No.

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