Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:35:36PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
> > This proposal aims to use UTF-8 encoding not only for debian/changelog,
> > but also for debian/control. Patch attached, as well as plain text for
> > better reading.
>
> Objection. Not until it is supported by the relevant tools. There are
> a number of bugs open on dpkg itself about this, without even
> considering the higher-level tools.
Some control files contain non-ASCII characters, there is no reason not to
mandate UTF-8 instead of random encodings.
Denis
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