Seconded, with this change. -- Raul
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:54:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
