Comment 17 for bug 1107859

On 2016-03-14 12:23, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I wouldn't like adding such a patch to lo-dicts, if such a thing
> would be needed there I'd try to do it a build time instead, and I'd
> do so very sadly.

Ack. With "fix it in lo-dicts" I actually meant upstream.

> Then, taking over a package in debian a kind of social problem :(, it
> needs to be done slowly and with great care, otherwise bad things may
> happen.

I happily hand over to you to handle that. ;)

> If I were you in the meantime I'd
> 1) upload that hyphen-ru of yours to close this bug

It's already in the sponsor queue.
http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring

> 2) open a bug against upstream lo-dicts to ask to convert the file to
> UTF-8

If I understand it correctly, they don't want bug reports against extensions, but suggest that you contact the author instead... Possibly I'll do it, but it will have to wait.