Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages
- To: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
- Cc: Thomas Preud'homme <robotux@debian.org>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, 701081@bugs.debian.org, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages
- From: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:57:40 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20130305105740.GD4285@yellowpig>
- Mail-followup-to: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Thomas Preud'homme <robotux@debian.org>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, 701081@bugs.debian.org, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
- Reply-to: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>, 701081@bugs.debian.org
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:45:35AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Which locales don't currently have charsets mapping to Unicode?
>
> Could we remove the non-UTF-8 locales which /do/ have complete
> UTF-8 coverage and replace them with aliases? That would at least
> achieve the transition for the vast majority of locales.
The way locales work, this would prevent people to read text files written
under such an encoding. Not an option I think.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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