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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> 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>

This looks good to me.  I think that strikes the right balance without
going into too many details about what justification should or shouldn't
be required for using UTF-8.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>