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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:

>       <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>

Seconded.

Thanks,
Jonathan