[libencode-zapcp1252-perl] 02/03: Improve long description to mention more covered codepages and mention less agressive alternative.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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commit 731c98b2cb1a2934fbe05062e2947abe04439f37
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
Date:   Mon Dec 8 15:29:59 2014 +0100

    Improve long description to mention more covered codepages and mention less agressive alternative.
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 debian/control.in | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 38e0cd9..1444994 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -16,9 +16,14 @@ Depends: ${cdbs:Depends},
  ${perl:Depends}
 Recommends: ${cdbs:Recommends}
 Description: zap Windows Western gremlin characters
- CP1252 or "Windows Western" is a superset of Latin-1.  Accidentally
- treating such strings as either Latin-1 or UTF-8 is common, and leads
- to "gremlins" - broken misfit characters.
+ CP1252 (Windows Western) is a superset of ISO8859-1 (Latin-1).
+ Accidentally mixing CP1252 with ISO8859-1 is common, causing "gremlins"
+ - broken misfit characters.
  .
  Encode::ZapCP1252 detects freak characters and either transliterates
  them into ASCII counterparts or translates them to UTF-8 equivalents.
+ .
+ Processed strings are assumed to contain a mixture of ASCII, ISO8859-1
+ and CP1252, but no actual UTF-8 characters (even if encoded as such).
+ For string soups including UTF-8 characters, Encoding::FixLatin may be
+ better suitable.

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