Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control

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Subject: Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control
From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:37:50 +0200
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Reply-to: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>, 208011@bugs.debian.org
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* Andrew Suffield (asuffield@debian.org) [030831 15:50]:
> 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.
> 
> A proposal requiring control files to be ASCII only might be more
> appropriate.

Ack. But it _might_ be good to say in this proposal that probably
these files will be UTF-8 some day, so that higher level tools should
be written with this in mind (e.g. 8bit-clean, appropiate hooks).


Cheers,
Andi
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- Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control
  - From: Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de>
- Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control
  - From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>

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