On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:24:30AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:32:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:33:10PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > >> > True. It could get away with tossing everything outside angulars or > >> > inside brackets, though. The address can be mandated to stay 7bit for > >> > now. > >> > >> At any rate, people shouldn't be putting raw Latin1 in these fields. > >
Amen. Use UTF-8. > >Amen. 7-bit ASCII only. I have not been following the debate due to time constraints, so excuse me for stepping in like this, but I have to tell it... > > Given that the control file is 7-bit pseudo-822, and has the same issues > as mail headers (i.e. presented before any C-T header) is there any > reason not to follow RFC2047 for the representation of non US-ASCII > maintiner names? My God. You really want to put this cr*p into debian/control? Why can't we just use UTF-8? There is even (my) pending policy proposal for this #99933, and consensus was that it should be accepted, there are just few (pseudo)issues holding it back. Remember it is just pseudo-822, not real 822, so we need not keep compatibility (which is not even there) with 822 at any price. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
