Hello everybody, in light with the discussion about UTF-8 on the debian-devel mailing list, I would like to close the issue 701081 about filename encodings.
I reproduce here the addition that has been worded by me, seconded by Jonathan Nieder and Julian Gilbey, and supported by others. > <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> The last objections were that it does not mandate ASCII for configuration files, and that the system PATH should not be defined here. For the system PATH, I think that we can move the definition anytime to a new dedicated section; it only requires somebody to work on it and propose a wording. Alternatively, what is in parenthesis above can be turned into a footnote. For the configuration files, further restrictions would make some packages non-compliant, and are not consensual. On the other hand, the proposed patch respects the current practice, through its general recommendation of ASCII with a "should". Unless there are further objections, I will go ahead with the wording above (or with the parenthesis turned in a footnote). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20130812233615.ga9...@falafel.plessy.net
