On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:07, Michael Bramer wrote: > The DDTP has no problmes with UTF-8 in control fields. Some maintainer > use UTF-8 or something else with 'some translations' in the descriptions. > > This is not nice. > > The policy should be: use normal ACSII and UTF-8 encoding if you use > non-ACSII characters
Well, you can reduce that to 'just use UTF-8', since UTF-8 is a strict superset of ASCII. So I agree with you, but we need to wait for this patch to get into dpkg before we can add such a rule to policy. In the meantime though, we should start removing ISO-8859-1 and friends...
