Re: UTF-8 encoding of changelog files
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> So should changelog files for debian packages be UTF8
Yes.
> and if so are there any that actually are
lintian's is, at least. Many others are these days as well. All of my
packages have UTF-8 changelog files, although not all actually have
non-ASCII characters.
> and does lintian have a simple check to ensure no illegal characters are
> in the file as per UTF8 rules?
Yup. Has for years.
debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding is the tag.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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