Given all the discussion that has taken place, what do you think of: 1) Serving debian-policy pages on Debian servers as UTF-8 documents, as an interim measure.
2) Given that this is only a solution for web servers under Debian's control, given that using the UTF-8 signature is now accepted Unicode practice and will force correct interpretation in HTML5-compliant browsers regardless of any conflicting HTTP headers or META charset tags, introducing the UTF-8 signature (\357\273\277) at the start of UTF-8 documents if an upstream release of package "less" no longer displays this sequence. LibreOffice Writer on Stretch does insert the UTF-8 signature at the beginning of a ".txt" file saved in UTF-8 format, as described in "less" bug 473227 with respect to OpenOffice. Thanks, Paul Hardy
