Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > | Right now, people are putting whatever random characters they feel like
> > | in Debian changelogs;
> >
> > I think we shouldn't use must just yet, since this will cause a lot of
> > packages (you know how many?) to be instantly buggy. If you change
> > the ?must? to ?should?, I'll second the proposal.
>
> Erm.. no, only those packages which comply with the latest
> version of policy, and it is pretty easy to add a rule to
> change the encoding to utf-8 on the debian/rules install target.
>
> Adding an example would be handy:
>
> To install changelog from upstream that is coded in ISO-8859-15,
> the following rules in your debian/rules may help:
>
> clean:
> .
> rm -f debian/ChangeLog-upstream
He's not talking about upstream changelogs.
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