Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
Package: debian-policy
I propose the following amendment to policy. The exact wording may need
a little more working.
Currently, the text encoding of the policy is undefined,
it might be better.
--- policy.sgml.orig Mon Apr 22 04:37:51 2002
+++ policy.sgml Mon Apr 22 04:39:34 2002
@@ -1475,7 +1475,9 @@
<p>
Each paragraph consists of a series of data fields; each
field consists of the field name, followed by a colon and
- then the data/value associated with that field. It ends at
+ then the data/value associated with that field.
+ The text is constructed of valid utf-8 characters.
+ It ends at
the end of the line. Horizontal whitespace (spaces and
tabs) may occur immediately before or after the value and is
ignored there; it is conventional to put a single space
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dancer@debian.org http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer
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