On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:29:33AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: [...] > A similar approach could be considered for deb control files, a new > mandatory Encoding field must be added to debian/control (and automatically > put in other files when needed), which tells encoding used by all control > files. Dpkg and friends may then perform automatic conversion (to UTF-8 or > to current user's locale) if desired.
This suggestion applies when control files contain non-ASCII characters, only problematic packages are concerned. Denis
