Bug#99933: Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:07, Michael Bramer wrote:
> The DDTP has no problmes with UTF-8 in control fields. Some maintainer
> use UTF-8 or something else with 'some translations' in the descriptions.
>
> This is not nice.
>
> The policy should be: use normal ACSII and UTF-8 encoding if you use
> non-ACSII characters
Well, you can reduce that to 'just use UTF-8', since UTF-8 is a strict
superset of ASCII. So I agree with you, but we need to wait for this
patch to get into dpkg before we can add such a rule to policy.
In the meantime though, we should start removing ISO-8859-1 and
friends...
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