On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:20:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 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>
For consistency, I guess this should be /usr/games rather than /usr/games/. > <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> > > > What do you think ? That sounds a very reasonable proposal. The final paragraph seems a little bit vague; would "should be restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so" be clearer? For if Unicode characters can be represented in ASCII, they almost always would be. This alternative wording would suggest that using characters such as em-dashes or non-breaking spaces or the like is not good (though I doubt people would use them as filenames of packaged files!). Julian -- 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/20130407231837.ga9...@d-and-j.net
