> On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
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> > I don't understand. How do I create a diff.gz? (I know how to use
> > diff, but what is this a diff of? Two different tarballs?)
>
> It is a diff between the original_upstream_source_directory/ and the
> debianized_tree/ (i.e. upstream_dir/ + debian/ inside). Since you have
> orig.tar.gz and the debianized tree (upstream_name-x.y + your own debian/
> inside) dpkg-source is able to create such diff.gz:
>
> dpkg-source -b upstream_namedir-x.y
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> >
> > Added my copyright statement back, changed to UTF-8 using
> > iconv. The `file` command is still saying ASCII however.
>
> Since UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII and there are only ASCII characters inside
> your copyright, therefore file reports ASCII text. However, UTF-8 being a
> variable length encoding can use more than one (1 to 4 bytes) for each
> character, depending on the character; for instance had characters like greek
> letters or german umlauts been in the file (where more than one byte per
> character is used), `file' wouldn't be reporting ASCII text.
>
> > Not sure how
> > to determine proper encoding.
>
> There is no universal method to determine that, that's why iconv
> has --from-code ;-) In that case, your copyright file is a valid ASCII as
> well as valid UTF-8.
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Thanks for those clear and helpful answers!
- Jeremiah
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