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; they might be encoded in ISO-8859-1, BIG5,
> > | ISO-8859-2, ISO-2022-JP, or who knows what. This does come up in the
> > | real world; I use apt-listchanges, and I fairly often see broken
> > | characters in changelogs. The solution is to define the charset of
> > | changelogs as UTF-8. That way, I can read all the changelogs at once
> > | (currently using gnome-terminal) and it will work.
> >
> > 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,
Policy applies to all packages, whether they state that they comply with
it yet or not. I'd also go with "should" in the meantime until a survey
is done and we know how many changelogs need to be fixed, but I think in
the long run it ought to be mandatory.
> and it is pretty easy to add a rule to change the encoding to utf-8
> on the debian/rules install target.
This is just debian/changelog we're talking about, not upstream
changelogs; they should simply be recoded in the source package.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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