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Re: is debian/control utf-8 clean?



On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:18:36AM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
> I'm asking, whether I may use multi-byte characters in the long
> description of debian/control. apt and dselect appear to handle them,
> but apache @packages.d.o says the content-type is iso-8859-1...

8-bit clean, but the character set is ascii. So you're screwed.

(dpkg is oblivious to character sets here. Debian uses ascii, and
anything with the top bit set is just random garbage that probably
won't display correctly on somebody else's system)

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