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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:40:19PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >                                 For me, allowing the correct spellings of
> > words and the correct names of things to be represented in file names is
> > important enough to rise to an ethical goal that I would advocate
> > adopting.
> 
> This.  Among the examples listed the only one I found convincing was
> 
> 	Certinomis_-_Autorité_Racine.crt

It might be advantageous for the certification autority to use UTF-8 to encode
its name, but the benefit for the user of the system is something entirely
different.

As long as the user is using UTF-8 locale and the terminal is able to handle
the script properly, there might be little harm done. However this does not
need to be the case. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.