Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file
> names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently.
> None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me.
I think we should also forbid the use of non ASCII file names in PATH
and recommend that ASCII file names be used where possible, but I also
agree that where ASCII cannot serve, only UTF-8 should be used.
Don Armstrong
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