Re: encoding of debian files debian/*
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian
> subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control
> (AFAIK the policy does not contain a note about this problem). But what
> to do with debian/copyright and special characters in names? Is there
> any recommendation for the encoding? Should UTF-8 be used as encoding to
> avoid misspelling a name? If there is no recommendation, I want to know,
> what you think about this?
Current de-facto standard is: Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet
(i.e., no chinese or something).
There is no policy on it (yet), expect one after sarge.
--Jeroen
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