On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file > names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently. > None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me.
I think we should also forbid the use of non ASCII file names in PATH and recommend that ASCII file names be used where possible, but I also agree that where ASCII cannot serve, only UTF-8 should be used. Don Armstrong -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- 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/20130401173919.gz4...@rzlab.ucr.edu
