Bug#593442: dpkg-genchanges can produce broken UTF-8 in Description

2010-08-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Colin Watson wrote: A fix for this is to insert: binmode($fh, :encoding(UTF-8)); ... just before the call to $self-parse in Dpkg::Interface::Storable::load(); this causes Perl to assume character semantics on the data read from that file, which causes sprintf

Bug#593442: dpkg-genchanges can produce broken UTF-8 in Description

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.4 Severity: normal User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu maverick dpkg-genchanges truncates the Description field to 65 bytes rather than 65 characters. When given a package with a Description field in UTF-8 and containing non-ASCII characters,