Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Yes, those sound like good ideas to me too.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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