Bug#821365: debian-policy: Clarify which characters constitute the syntax of control files

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: minor
> Control: tags -1 + patch

> The description of control file syntax in §5.1 references numerous
> characters, some by number and some as simple display of the
> character, and some as informal names. Some of these mentions are
> confusing.

> The section also specifies that all control files are encoded as
> UTF-8, so knowledge of Unicode is (IMO correctly) assumed of the
> reader.

> This patch standardises the mention of characters in §5.1 to
> explicitly give Unicode code point references and (where appropriate)
> the literal character unambiguously quoted.

Thanks, applied (without the Unicode double quotes, since DebianDoc-SGML
probably can't cope).

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