We need to evaluate what will break if we allow unicode package names. Areas to test:
I think we need to have a separate package repo that gets mirrored along with everything else but contains a test package with a unicode name. This would let us create a package on the cvs server, register it in the pkgdb and build it with koji. createrepo could run on this repo and the mirror system will pick it up. Testers can use yum with the special repo enabled to test it.
The only thing that wouldn't get tested would be bodhi. Have to ask lmacken if there's an easy solution for that or if bodhi will just need separate testing.
I don't think this will be done for F10.
Ticket #1425 might be relevant to this as well.
At the present we're disallowing unicode package names. Names are restricted to an ascii subset. So no need to test this. Reopen if that policy changes.
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