On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian > subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control > (AFAIK the policy does not contain a note about this problem). But what > to do with debian/copyright and special characters in names? Is there > any recommendation for the encoding? Should UTF-8 be used as encoding to > avoid misspelling a name? If there is no recommendation, I want to know, > what you think about this?
Current de-facto standard is: Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet (i.e., no chinese or something). There is no policy on it (yet), expect one after sarge. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
