Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:39:19AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> 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.

Hello everybody,

Here is a somewhat clumsy proposition.

      <sec id="filenames">
        <heading>File names</heading>

        <p>
          The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system PATH 
          (namely <tt>/bin</tt>, <tt>/sbin</tt>, <tt>/usr/bin</tt>,
          <tt>/usr/sbin</tt> and <tt>/usr/games/</tt>) must be encoded in
          ASCII.
        </p>

        <p>
          The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
          outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
          restricted to ASCII when they can be represented in that character
          set.
        </p>
      </sec>


What do you think ?

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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan