Bug#175064: Debian policy documents should be UTF-8 encoded
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:19:39PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:48, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > This proposal is a fairly important yet easy to take first step along
> > > the way of transitioning all of Debian to UTF-8.
> > >
> > > Attached is a patch against the latest version of policy.
> >
> > Seconded. The policy documents should probably be converted to UTF-8
> > too.
>
> I agree. I can't actually figure out how they got to be ISO-8859-1
> encoded as they are now; whatever, I do, I just seem to get ASCII; i.e.
> (C) instead of the ?? character. I'll file this as a separate bug,
> though.
Umm, maybe because we use ©?
[joy@pork:~/cvs/policy]% recode latin1..utf8 policy.sgml
[joy@pork:~/cvs/policy]% cvs diff policy.sgml
[joy@pork:~/cvs/policy]%
Where is the bug, again?
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