On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:12:40AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > With the kind help of Grinnz on #perl-help, we determined that the > document you sent causes the following error: > > "Can't interchange noncharacter code point U+FFFF in position 46198" Hi Felix, thank you for the diagnosis, hopefully that will help fix it. https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/issues/1760 > According to the documentation for Unicode::UTF-8 [1], the use of that > codepoint is not allowed in open interchange of Unicode text data Interestingly, it seems that is no longer true as of Unicode 7 - it is valid in UTF-8 encoded files, but has no "standard, interchangeable meaning". I will leave it up to the maintainers to interpret that in the context of lintian, probably still a false positive, but the point of avoiding national encodings is to provide standardised meaning of text. https://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum9.html
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