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Re: charsets in debian/control



On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:40:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> On that note, how likely is it to hit a UTF-8 character encoding that
> contains a '\n'? Any non UTF-8 aware parser would assume a new line
> has started and get parse errors.

Thats no problem. The only problem you have with UTF-8 is, that a UTF-8
reader will see illegal byte sequences in a traditionally encoded (latin1)
file.

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