Re: encoding of debian files debian/*
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Respectively from Latin Extended-B and Latin Extended-A. As I said,
> there is no official policy on it, to the letter of the policy any
> non-ASCII is currently forbidden.
The only clear statement I see is on debian/changelog. I'd think
copyright would also be ok (as Pierre mentioned, for spelling your own
name right), even if it is not policy yet (assuming it's not outright
banned). For executable files, I'm not so sure.
> Note that there are bugs on policy from 2001 onwards for this issue,
> #99933 for example. I have good faith something like this will be
> accepted into policy post-sarge.
As do I.
Wouter
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