Bug#168160: dpkg-source and UTF-8
"Petr Baláš,,," <petr@balas.cz> writes:
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at /usr/bin/dpkg-source
> line 604, <GZIP> line 1429.
Unpacking maxima 5.6b-50 with LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8@euro gave me 201
of those warnings. The following patch got rid of them:
--- /usr/bin/dpkg-source 2002-09-21 18:45:30.000000000 +0300
+++ /home/kalle/any-arch/bin/dpkg-source 2002-11-30 18:07:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@
if (length($difffile)) {
&forkgzipread("$dscdir/$difffile");
+ binmode GZIP;
$/="\n";
$_ = <GZIP>;
while ($_ || !eof(GZIP)) {
However, I don't know if it causes other problems.
Are there any rules about character encodings in patches,
particularly in the names of the patched files?
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