On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:07, Frank Küster wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> schrieb:
>
> > * Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> [2004-01-20 11:36]:
> >> You're breaking policy by doing that ;-) policy only allows UTF-8
> >> in debian/changelog and not in debian/control ... so if you were to
> >
> > Does policy prohibit UTF-8 in control anywhere?
>
> zgrep -i -C3 utf /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
>
> yields only the recommendation for the changelog, and the respective
> footnote.
>
Which says you can't use it in package control fields until dpkg has
better support[0], iirc.
Scott
[0] Why do I get the feeling Martin's going to add something to my
TODO list in a minute ... <g>
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