On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > | Right now, people are putting whatever random characters they feel like > > | in Debian changelogs; they might be encoded in ISO-8859-1, BIG5, > > | ISO-8859-2, ISO-2022-JP, or who knows what. This does come up in the > > | real world; I use apt-listchanges, and I fairly often see broken > > | characters in changelogs. The solution is to define the charset of > > | changelogs as UTF-8. That way, I can read all the changelogs at once > > | (currently using gnome-terminal) and it will work. > > > > I think we shouldn't use must just yet, since this will cause a lot of > > packages (you know how many?) to be instantly buggy. If you change > > the ?must? to ?should?, I'll second the proposal. > > Erm.. no, only those packages which comply with the latest > version of policy,
Policy applies to all packages, whether they state that they comply with it yet or not. I'd also go with "should" in the meantime until a survey is done and we know how many changelogs need to be fixed, but I think in the long run it ought to be mandatory. > and it is pretty easy to add a rule to change the encoding to utf-8 > on the debian/rules install target. This is just debian/changelog we're talking about, not upstream changelogs; they should simply be recoded in the source package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
