Re: Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 5 mars 2013 01:16:52, Bill Allombert a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:06:06AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > We have defaulted to UTF-8 locales for over a decade now. Unless > > there are compelling reasons not to use UTF-8 locales, maybe we > > could perhaps consider retiring them a

Re: Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:58AM +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Le mardi 5 mars 2013 01:16:52, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:06:06AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > We have defaulted to UTF-8 locales for over a decade now. Unless > > > there are compelling reasons n

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:45:35AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Which locales don't currently have charsets mapping to Unicode? > > Could we remove the non-UTF-8 locales which /do/ have complete > UTF-8 coverage and replace them with aliases? That would at least > achieve the transition for the va

Re: Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh writes: > Could we remove the non-UTF-8 locales which /do/ have complete UTF-8 > coverage and replace them with aliases? That would at least achieve the > transition for the vast majority of locales. I don't think this is a good idea. There are a lot of legacy ISO 8859-1 or KOI8-R

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 04:38:49PM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > I'd second something like this, but I'd first like us to consider if > we really want any non-ASCII characters in filenames. Currently on sid > there does not appear to be many such filenames (64 from my check, if > that's not b

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > * There are names that look rather arbitrary and replaceable >with ASCII alternatives if needed. For instance in python-pyramid, >usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyramid/tests/fixtures/static/héhé.html At least some of these (for things located in a directory n