Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

Given all the discussion that has taken place, what do you think of:

1) Serving debian-policy pages on Debian servers as UTF-8 documents,
as an interim measure.

2) Given that this is only a solution for web servers under Debian's
control, given that using the UTF-8 signature is now accepted Unicode
practice and will force correct interpretation in HTML5-compliant
browsers regardless of any conflicting HTTP headers or META charset
tags, introducing the UTF-8 signature (\357\273\277) at the start of
UTF-8 documents if an upstream release of package "less" no longer
displays this sequence.

LibreOffice Writer on Stretch does insert the UTF-8 signature at the
beginning of a ".txt" file saved in UTF-8 format, as described in
"less" bug 473227 with respect to OpenOffice.

Thanks,


Paul Hardy