I've been fiddling with Description-XYZ fields in control files, for the purpose of i18n in main-menu, and, well, dpkg doesn't like my UTF-8 :( I've got this in anna/debian/control: Description: Finish setting up the Debian installer anna's not nearly apt, but for the Debian installer, it will do. XBC-Description-sv: Färdigställ Debians installationsprogram anna är inte apt på långa vägar, men för Debians installationsprogram duger det. but when the package has been built, dpkg-deb -I says this: Description: Finish setting up the Debian installer anna's not nearly apt, but for the Debian installer, it will do. description-sv: Färdigställ Debians installationsprogram anna är inte apt pÃ¥ lÃ¥nga vägar, men för Debians installationsprogram duger det. sure, still valid UTF-8, but it's UTF-8 for what the UTF-8 is if interpreted according to Latin1. I thought dpkg didn't assume anything at all about the encoding in control files? That it expected us-ascii and damn everyone who didn't follow that. Can I fix this somehow, or are we doomed to having several encodings in the file because we can't do UTF-8? Regards, Martin
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