Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature

Russ Allbery writes: > I don't believe it's correct to expect UTF-8 files to include this. > I've heard of BOM marks used this from the very early days of Unicode, > but so far as I understand it, the world has largely given up on this > approach and UTF-8 generators do not produce them. I did a

Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature

Paul Hardy writes: > That might not be the only UTF-8 that appears in such files someday > though, so a more general solution would be to start the file with the > UTF-8 signature, aka the Byte Order Mark (BOM). This is the UTF-8 > encoding of U+FEFF, which is 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF or octal \357 \273 \

Processed: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org, limit package to debian-policy, usertagging 865713 ...

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org Setting user to debian-pol...@packages.debian.org (was r...@debian.org). > limit package debian-policy Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'debian-policy' Limit currently set to '

Bug#865713: Please Start UTF-8 debian-policy Text Files with UTF-8 Signature

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.0.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Justification: garbled display (mojibake) in web browsers Dear debian-policy Maintainers, There are numerous non-breaking space characters (U+00A0) in: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt These

Bug#865685: debian-policy: typo in upgrading-checklist

Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.0.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch There's a small typo in upgrading-checklist.xml, see the patch below. diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.xml b/upgrading-checklist.xml index 7077d72..7a84fbc 100644 --- a/upgrading-checklist.xml +++ b/upgrading-checklist.xml @@ -20