Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature
Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com> writes:
> Alternatively, if convenient, you could convert the non-breaking space
> characters to a plain space in that text file in a script. That will
> avoid the problem until you need some other non-ASCII character in the
> file other than non-breaking space. You could convert all of those
> non-breaking space characters to ordinary spaces in one fell swoop with:
> sed -i 's/\o302\o240/ /g' upgrading-checklist.txt
If this file doesn't already contain UTF-8 characters that can't be
trivially replaced, it almost certainly will in the future, so I'm fine
with it containing the non-breaking spaces to force the matter (even if in
general they're a little irritating). The file will definitely be UTF-8,
so I think we should try to get this right.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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