Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given the recent discussion about UTF-8 support in debian, >I would like to come forth with following proposal. >Any comments, suggestions, and grammar corrections are welcome
Please make these two: >*Addition to section 3 Control files and their fields: > >3.3 Default charset of control files > >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these >characters must be encoded using UTF-8 encoding. [...] >*Addition to 13.5 Preferred documentation formats: > >HTML documents, if in encoding other than us-ascii, must >have in their header an appropriate META tag describing the used encoding. > >[example: ><META HTTP-Equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"> >] ... use "should" rather than "must". debian/changelog's character set seems like a sensible thing to make RC, though. What will tools like dpkg-parsechangelog and apt-listchanges make of a UTF-8 Debian changelog? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
