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Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded



On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:54:08AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Ok, fair enough.  Here's a patch which makes it a "should".  Given my
> sample with lintian though, I don't think we'll have too many packages
> to fix.
> 
> Any seconds?

> --- policy.sgml~	2002-11-15 01:49:40.000000000 -0500
> +++ policy.sgml	2003-01-01 21:59:26.000000000 -0500
> @@ -2257,6 +2257,13 @@
>  	  separated by exactly two spaces.
>  	</p>
>  
> +	<p>
> +	  The entire changelog should be encoded in the
> +	  <url id="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2279.html"; name="UTF-8">
> +	  encoding of
> +	  <url id="http://www.unicode.org/"; name="Unicode">.
> +	</p>
> +	
>  	<sect1><heading>Defining alternative changelog formats</heading>
>  
>  	  <p>

Seconded. I know I have a couple to change myself, but that's OK.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

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