* Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl, 2015-08-22, 18:04:
iconv should be good for plain text files in /usr/share/doc; but if
applied blindly to code, or HTML documents or similar, it can cause
more harm than good.
Blindly can break when the code in question deals with obsolete
encodings, but
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:58:25AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
On 2015-08-19 23:43, Adam Borowski wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion and the prototype patch.
I think it is an interesting proposal and I think we could try it as an
experimental check to see if it is a feasible check.
I did some
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes:
Here's an experimental tag, a step towards elimination of mojibake
system-wide. It checks all text files in *bin/, /usr/share/doc/ and
those that look like a script file. Text is defined as not having any
bytes in the 0..31 range other than tabs,
On 2015-08-19 23:43, Adam Borowski wrote:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.36.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion and the prototype patch.
I think it is an interesting proposal and I think we could try it as an
experimental check to see if it is a feasible check.
Hi Adam!
Here are some comments from a grumpy Lintian contributor:
* Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl, 2015-08-19, 23:43:
+Tag: text-file-uses-obsolete-encoding
We have already a few tags named *-uses-obsolete-national-encoding, so
it would be nice if this tag used the same scheme.
Also,
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.36.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Here's an experimental tag, a step towards elimination of mojibake
system-wide. It checks all text files in *bin/, /usr/share/doc/ and those
that look like a script file. Text is defined as not having any bytes in
the 0..31
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