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

[Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org>]

On 04/07/2013 05:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
>> Here is a somewhat clumsy proposition.

It sounds clear and concise to me.

>>       <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.

Agreed. As one of the concerned package maintainers, I think this sounds
fine.

-- 
Kind regards,
Michael Shuler