Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.9 Severity: normal
I ahev a package with Description in UTF-8. Until some time ago, all worked well, dpkg-buildpackage placed the Description verbatim into debian package. However, I found out now that if I compile the package in UTF-8 locale, Description is mangled. It seems that the encoding is assumed to be in ISO-8859-1 and is converted into UTF-8. Of course, since it was already in UTF-8, the result is mojibake. In 8-bit locales the Description is copied verbatim and all works well. I guess it has something to do with new perl's UTF-8 capabilities (as many other bugs already reported) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux atlas15 2.4.17-grsecurity-1.9.2+xfs+unicodedeadkeys+pspa #2 Thu Sep 19 09:14:19 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.13.90.0.10-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpio 2.5-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii make 3.80-1 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.4-11 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.8.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.8.0-13 Core Perl modules. -- no debconf information
