On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:02:46AM +0200, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: > Hi! > > Lintian tells me that there are obsolete national charset characters > in debian/changelog, and I have to convert it to UTF-8. > > The national characters are in my name. First I have converted > changelog, then lintian figured out that I do an NMU. So I also > converted control. > > Now I cannot debsign, because I could not properly tell gnupg my name > in UTF-8 encoding (cut&paste did not actually work). > > How did you handle the situation? > (I convert back to latin-2 for the time being, but I am overly > interested in the Right Way.)
Use the -e'Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' to dpkg-buildpackage, in ASCII (you need to have write your name without any non-ASCII, that is, non-7bit, characters). If you want to write your name in non-7bit characters, you'll need to do so in UTF-8, there is no real policy yet for this issue, but the consensus seems to be it becomes '_if_ you use non-7bit characters, those must be in UTF-8'. So in the latter case, write your name in debian/control in UTF-8 too. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
