Re: Bug#208011: [PROPOSAL] UTF-8 encoding for debian/control
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:42:38 +0200, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> said:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 23:16, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> And that they are unwilling to conform, unlike everyone
>> else. Issues should be fixed (e.g. by patching the packaging system
>> and whatever else), not blithely ignored by putting whatever the
>> fuck one wants in the control file.
> That's why we need to mandate UTF-8. Only fixing the tools, without
> putting encoding boundaries would be useless.
You can't change policy in such a way that would make a
significant number of packages instantly buggy. Repeat after me:
Policy is not a stick to beat developers on the head with.
Once the tools can handle non ascii7, one could recommend
utf-8 as the charset. At this pont, the best we can do is ascii.
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