Bug#143941: define a usable character set for description/maintainer name etc.
Previously Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> The text is already being used, and they are dumping random text there.
> It should either be restricted to 7-bit code, or allowed to
> utf-8. Tools can follow.
I don't agree. You are advocating people to use a character set that
no packaging tool can handle and which is only likele to resort in
problems for people at the moment.
The sane approach would be to limit people to plain ASCII at the moment
and work on adding proper utf8 support to the various tools before
we tell people to start using utf8.
Wichert.
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