On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:05:59PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:07, Frank K�ster wrote: > > Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > * Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-20 11:36]: > > >> You're breaking policy by doing that ;-) policy only allows UTF-8 > > >> in debian/changelog and not in debian/control ... so if you were to > > > > > > Does policy prohibit UTF-8 in control anywhere? > > > > zgrep -i -C3 utf /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz > > > > yields only the recommendation for the changelog, and the respective > > footnote. > > Which says you can't use it in package control fields until dpkg has > better support[0], iirc.
Nothing actually breaks in dpkg; it just doesn't recode the control fields to the current locale for output by 'dpkg -s' and the like. (Likewise 'apt-cache show'.) This might make it a stretch for policy to recommend it, but I see no reason why packages can't start using UTF-8 for things like maintainer names before then. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
