Bug#241333: policy mentions that changelogs should be utf-8; this is a bug
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:02:52 -0600 (CST), Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> said:
> This is not supported by any tool in debian.
Well, by itself, this is not a problem: Policy is not
packaging system documentation.
> Control files are ascii, 7-bit, period. And, when generating the
> .changes for an upload, the changelog is included, this means the
> changelog *must* be 7-bit ascii. Period.
Could you explain to me the nature and magnitude of the
problems encountered? I have a number of packages installed which
have non ascii chars in the changelog, and there appears to have been
no issues.
>> dpkg hat off>
Also, why are you so sure parsecdata can't handle non-ascii
chars? You do seem to be putting the file handle in binmode.
Starting from Perl 5.6.0, Perl has had the capacity to handle Unicode
natively. Starting from Perl 5.8.0, the use of "use utf8" is no
longer necessary.
Indeed, the fix seems blindingly simple:
in outputclose, add this:
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
Perhaps I should try putting on a dpkg hat, since a simple fix
like this is eschewed in favour of changing established policy and
causing a lot of packages to be changed.
manoj
with no hat on.
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