Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This drops the hyperlink for UTF-8 pointing to the RFC; I don't think > the fact that UTF-8 is now pervasive has made this irrelevant. (That > is, I don't know how relevant it was in the first place, but if it was > relevant before, why isn't it relevant now?) > > Also drops the footnote explaining how to check the encoding, which > seems to me like a good idea to have. > > Seconded anyway, if you don't think these are issues.
The reason why I dropped the RFC reference is that there are multiple references to UTF-8 all over Policy these days and I don't really want to footnote all of them. I'm not sure the best way to handle this. Maybe we need some sort of introductory mention of UTF-8 somewhere? The explanation for how to check the encoding is already in Lintian and is primarily useful for doing the transition. I can add it back in, I suppose, but it didn't seem particularly useful in the Policy context; it felt more like a Debian Developers Reference sort of thing. It doesn't hurt, but again I'm not sure if it's worth carrying that footnote in each place we talk about UTF-8 (changelog, control files, man pages, and soon copyright, README.Debian, etc.). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
