Felix Lechner <[email protected]> writes:
> Since filenames are arbitrary byte sequences that serve as valid
> identifiers in the file system, I am not sure it makes sense to impose
> UTF-8 validation in Lintian.
Policy 10.10:
The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system PATH
(namely /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/games) must be
encoded in ASCII.
The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so.
--
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
