Bug#588661: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary false positive due to UTF-8 name

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 2010-07-25, 16:07:
> > vlc 1.1.0-3 gets a spelling-error-in-binary ment meant information for 
> > the name Clément. This is a false positive.
>
> This is indeed a problem, but I looked at it for a while and I'm not 
> sure that it's fixable.  The problem is that we generate the list of 
> strings in the binary using the program strings, which doesn't have a 
> mode for picking up UTF-8-encoded strings.

Shameless plug: I wrote an UTF-8-capable strings(1) implementation:
http://jwilk.net/software/u8strings

It currently lacks the -f option, which is required by Lintian. If you 
were interested in adopting u8strings in Lintian, I'd happy to add this 
option.

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Jakub Wilk