On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:44, Joel Baker wrote: > Is it valid to use UTF-8 in the debian/copyright file? (Specifically, it > is possibly to accurately reproduce a copyright symbol, using UTF-8, which > would be a nice thing to have...) > There exists no policy for this; therefore common sense takes precedence. UTF-8 is fast becoming the defacto standard character set (with good reason) so I'd use it.
It's probably a good additional point that most of the standard character sets have no  symbol and that there is no legal basis for "(C)" being a valid representation of it. On the other hand, policy states UTF-8 for Changelog which breaks katie if your name contains accented characters because you're still forbidden by policy to use UTF-8 in debian/control. We are become grey; we stand between the policy and the star... Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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