On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:23:36PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:35:38PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > I've seen some UTF-8-encoded debian/changelog files but I haven't > > seen anything mentioning it is allowed in Debian Policy. > > > > According to #174982, the proposal has been accepted but the bug > > is still open. When is this planned for?
> Ahm. You need it written in the Policy manual to use a 16-bit charset?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.... multibyte encoding. If they were using a 16-bit character set,
we'd have to kill them for creating files that can't be processed as
C strings. :)
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Steve Langasek
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