Re: encoding of debian files debian/*
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> schrieb:
> 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.
There is:
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ap-pkg-sourcepkg.html#s-pkg-dpkgchangelog
The problem is only that the name in changelog has to match the name in
control/dsc and friends, and it says that some tools still have problems
with utf-8 in control files. However, I've been using utf-8 for tetex's
changelog and control for months, with my name in it, and I never heard
of any problems.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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