Re: Invalid sequences in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 07:21:47PM -0700, pF arQon wrote:
> I can't infer the cause from the end result, but the supposed-plain-text
> document has numerous instances of Apple Quotes in it, which obviously
> aren't valid in either ASCII or any other non-MBCS encoding. This includes
> many forms of [x]term, and even things like Firefox on Debian itself *in a
> UTF8 locale*, because text/plain by definition does not permit binary data.
As far as I can see, the bug is that the webserver advertize the text as
windows-1252 instead of UTF-8 (as you can see using control-I under firefox.
I do not think we need to change policy.txt itself.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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