Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Hello everybody,
> Here is a somewhat clumsy proposition. > <sec id="filenames"> > <heading>File names</heading> > <p> > The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system > PATH > (namely <tt>/bin</tt>, <tt>/sbin</tt>, <tt>/usr/bin</tt>, > <tt>/usr/sbin</tt> and <tt>/usr/games/</tt>) must be encoded in > ASCII. > </p> > <p> > The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages > outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be > restricted to ASCII when they can be represented in that character > set. > </p> > </sec> This looks good to me. I think that strikes the right balance without going into too many details about what justification should or shouldn't be required for using UTF-8. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87li8u9ds4....@windlord.stanford.edu
