Hoary Pre-Update Checklist

[Olafur Arason]

I was acctually reading the release notes and saw that the migration tool
wasn't included by default but you can still use it, it's utf8-migration-tool, I
haven't had a problem with it but I haven't done extensive testing.

Olafur Arason

On Apr 8, 2005 12:42 AM, Ari Torhamo <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
> pe, 2005-04-08 kello 00:00 +0000, Olafur Arason kirjoitti:
> > A) The great thing about debian package system is that it work well.
> >      Ubuntu also has nice upgrade features like tool that migrates
> >      documents to unicode.
> 
> Maybe I remember wrong but I think that one of the developers said that
> UTF-8 migration tool wouldn't make it to Hoary. I'm glad if I'm wrong,
> because just yesterday I had problems with this matter. I was helping a
> person to install Ubuntu and noticed that many file names of his
> back-upped files had changed unreadable after moving them to Hoary (the
> file names contained some Scandinavian special characters).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ari
> 
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