Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files
Seconded, with this change.
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Raul
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:54:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> wrote:
> >Given the recent discussion about UTF-8 support in debian,
> >I would like to come forth with following proposal.
> >Any comments, suggestions, and grammar corrections are welcome
>
> Please make these two:
>
> >*Addition to section 3 Control files and their fields:
> >
> >3.3 Default charset of control files
> >
> >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's
> >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to
> >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these
> >characters must be encoded using UTF-8 encoding.
>
> [...]
>
> >*Addition to 13.5 Preferred documentation formats:
> >
> >HTML documents, if in encoding other than us-ascii, must
> >have in their header an appropriate META tag describing the used encoding.
> >
> >[example:
> ><META HTTP-Equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
> >]
>
> ... use "should" rather than "must". debian/changelog's character set
> seems like a sensible thing to make RC, though. What will tools like
> dpkg-parsechangelog and apt-listchanges make of a UTF-8 Debian
> changelog?
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
>
>
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