Bug#537707: groff limitations on manual page characters removed

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.2.0
Severity: wishlist

groff 1.20.1 is now in unstable, and removes the limitations on
characters in manual page source that formerly needed to be documented
in policy. Of course we ought to wait until this new version is in
testing before changing the policy manual, but I thought I might as well
get the process started early.

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index d02f6c1..59352a5 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8847,15 +8847,6 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
 	    <file>zh_CN</file>, and <file>zh_TW</file> are all allowed.
 	  </footnote>
 	</p>
-
-	<p>
-	  Due to limitations in current implementations, all characters
-	  in the manual page source should be representable in the usual
-	  legacy encoding for that language, even if the file is
-	  actually encoded in UTF-8. Safe alternative ways to write many
-	  characters outside that range may be found in
-	  <manref name="groff_char" section="7">.
-	</p>
       </sect>
 
       <sect>

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]