Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:07:08PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:

> --- policy.sgml~	2002-11-15 01:49:40.000000000 -0500
> +++ policy.sgml	2003-01-01 21:59:26.000000000 -0500
> @@ -2257,6 +2257,13 @@
>  	  separated by exactly two spaces.
>  	</p>
>  
> +	<p>
> +	  The entire changelog must be encoded in the
> +	  <url id="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2279.html"; name="UTF-8">
> +	  encoding of
> +	  <url id="http://www.unicode.org/"; name="Unicode">.
> +	</p>
> +	
>  	<sect1><heading>Defining alternative changelog formats</heading>
>  
>  	  <p>

Seconded. (Of course, just one sentence like "UTF-8 is the required
character encoding for all Debian files" at the appropriate place in
policy would be preferable, but as you point out, we're not there, yet.)

 - Sebastian