The following reply was made to PR pkg/31185; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
To: froz@icix.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/31185
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:10:43 +0200

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 On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:46:56PM +0100, Antonio Marques wrote:
 > Yes, this makes it possible to easily identify the error, altough in
 > previous versions of this package realname=3D'' was valid.
 
 yes, it's a consequence of the UTF-8 changes.  we (silc developers) are
 aware of the issue and it should be properly resolved in the next
 version but for now i'd prefer to preserve the semantics of the upstream
 version so it won't confuse users even further.
 
 
 regards,
 
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