Bug#537707: groff limitations on manual page characters removed

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>]

package debian-policy
user debian-policy@packages.debian.org

usertag 537707 = normative proposal
thanks

> 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>
> 

        Seconded.

        manoj
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