Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-09 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
[Sorry for hijacking an unrelated reply] >*Addition to 13.5 Preferred documentation formats: > >HTML documents, if in encoding other than us-ascii, must >have in their header an appropriate META tag describing the used encoding. Shouldn't that be "iso-8859-1 (latin1)" instead of

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-07 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:20:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 04, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's > >> >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to > >> >use characters ou

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-07 Thread Raul Miller
Seconded, with this change. -- Raul On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:54:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Given the recent discussion about UTF-8 support in debian, > >I would like to come forth with following proposal. > >Any comments, suggestions, and g

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 04, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's >> >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to >> >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these >> >characters must be

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-07 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:12:37AM +0300, Adi Stav wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:20:38PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > ...snip... > > > > *Addition to 13.3 Additional documentation: > > > > Documentation of debian packages in text format, if written in language > > requiring characters ou

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-07 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:54:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >3.3 Default charset of control files > > [...] > > >*Addition to 13.5 Preferred documentation formats: > > > >HTML documents, if in encoding other than us-ascii, must > >have in their

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given the recent discussion about UTF-8 support in debian, >I would like to come forth with following proposal. >Any comments, suggestions, and grammar corrections are welcome Please make these two: >*Addition to section 3 Control files and their field

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 03, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's > >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to > >use characters outside 7 bit

Re: RFC: default encoding of documentation and debian control files

2001-06-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 03, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If, for whatever reason (such as upstream author's or maintainer's >names, foreign language package description and similar), you need to >use characters outside 7 bit ASCII range in control files, these >characters must be encoded using U