Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:49:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm still a bit dubious about this, since I don't believe editors and
> generators normally add it, but given how we generate the text versions of
> the documents, it's relatively easy to add a leading BOM and seems
> harmless. I'll take a look.
I share the discomfort in your previous message with using the UTF-8
BOM. I'd have thought that a better approach here would be to fix this
at the HTTP layer:
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt
(and other text files here) should return "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8", not just "Content-Type: text/plain".
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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