Bug#892989: closed by Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (Re: Bug#892989: weird chars found in dpkg output)

[Harald Dunkel]

I think you misunderstood the problem. This is not about
using UTF-8, but about producing binary log files, refused
by tools like less and others.

Writing the log file you don't know the locale used when it
is read, so the

	"if locale == xxx"

is bad code. I am forced to *avoid* UTF-8 as a default to
make sure that there are no weird side effects later.

Just to replace "->"?


Harri