Bug#468759: lintian: Please check encoding of doc-base files

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.45
Severity: wishlist


Hi, 

I noticed few weeks ago that about a half of doc-base files, that
contain non-ASCII characters, is already encoded in UTF-8, while the
other half is latin1. Yeah, this wasn't documented before, but it is
now, as the latest version of the doc-base manual states that doc-base 
files should be UTF-8 encoded (see section 2.3.2). Could you please 
add check for this to lintian?

Regards,
robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.16.6            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                4.23-2               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-2               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.1-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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