On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:35:36PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote: > > This proposal aims to use UTF-8 encoding not only for debian/changelog, > > but also for debian/control. Patch attached, as well as plain text for > > better reading. > > Objection. Not until it is supported by the relevant tools. There are > a number of bugs open on dpkg itself about this, without even > considering the higher-level tools.
Some control files contain non-ASCII characters, there is no reason not to mandate UTF-8 instead of random encodings. Denis
