Bug#160827: syntax of the maintainer name in the Maintainer: field
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:24:30AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:33:10PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> >> > True. It could get away with tossing everything outside angulars or
> >> > inside brackets, though. The address can be mandated to stay 7bit for
> >> > now.
> >>
> >> At any rate, people shouldn't be putting raw Latin1 in these fields.
> >
Amen. Use UTF-8.
> >Amen. 7-bit ASCII only.
I have not been following the debate due to time constraints, so excuse
me for stepping in like this, but I have to tell it...
>
> Given that the control file is 7-bit pseudo-822, and has the same issues
> as mail headers (i.e. presented before any C-T header) is there any
> reason not to follow RFC2047 for the representation of non US-ASCII
> maintiner names?
My God. You really want to put this cr*p into debian/control?
Why can't we just use UTF-8? There is even (my) pending policy proposal
for this #99933, and consensus was that it should be accepted, there are
just few (pseudo)issues holding it back.
Remember it is just pseudo-822, not real 822, so we need not keep
compatibility (which is not even there) with 822 at any price.
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