On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:24:55PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > I would like to see examples of UTF-8 filenames in source packages that are > not bugs and do not cause issues with some users before allowing them in > policy. Policy still allow to use non utf-8 locales.
We have defaulted to UTF-8 locales for over a decade now. Unless there are compelling reasons not to use UTF-8 locales, maybe we could perhaps consider retiring them and having everything be UTF-8 by default at this point. If we do require this in userspace, then the naming restrictions could also be enforced in-kernel e.g. with create/open with O_CREAT to disallow non-UTF-8 filename creation. This would bring some much needed sanity to filename handling, so it's a wider issue than just what's permitted in packages. WRT the point about allowing non-UTF-8 filenames for purposes such as testsuites, if we require UTF-8 across the board, such tests become unnecessary ;-) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130305000605.gk23...@codelibre.net
