On Wed, 04 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Comments?

Pretty much all of the tools that read debian/control assume that it
is in UTF-8, including the BTS, so even though it isn't a mandate of
policy, it's effectively mandated by the tools that actually use these
files.
 
> Also, while we're looking at this, where are we on UTF-8 support in
> debian/control?  Is it now time to similarly require that all control
> files be encoded in UTF-8?  There are only 11 packages in the archive with
> non-UTF-8 control files.

Likewise for control.


Don Armstrong

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