Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 01:45:25PM +0800, 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan wrote: > +1 to setting UTF-8 as default. > > Some Java packages that I worked with contain source files with symbols not > recognized by compilers unless the encoding is set to UTF-8. Mostly these > symbols are a copyright sign "©"

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-03 Thread 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan
+1 to setting UTF-8 as default. Some Java packages that I worked with contain source files with symbols not recognized by compilers unless the encoding is set to UTF-8. Mostly these symbols are a copyright sign "©" apprearing in the license section, occasionally CJK letters in the author

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ivan Shmakov > > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > Ivan Shmakov > > Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: > > >>> Package: dpkg-dev > > >>> More and more packages are adding unicode files > > >> I assume you mean “UTF-8 filenames” here (per below), right? >

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tollef Fog Heen writes: > Ivan Shmakov > Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: >>> Package: dpkg-dev >>> More and more packages are adding unicode files >> I assume you mean “UTF-8 filenames” here (per below), right? >>> as unicode support has become

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ivan Shmakov > > Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: > > > Package: dpkg-dev > > > More and more packages are adding unicode files > > I assume you mean “UTF-8 filenames” here (per below), right? > > > as unicode support has become more reliable and available. > >

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-01 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: > Package: dpkg-dev > More and more packages are adding unicode files I assume you mean “UTF-8 filenames” here (per below), right? > as unicode support has become more reliable and available. What are the use cases for

Re: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Hans-Christoph Steiner writes ("make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8"): > More and more packages are adding unicode files as unicode support has > become more reliable and available. The package building process is not > guaranteed to happen in a unicode locale since

Re: Bug#873919: make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: forcemerge -1 843776 Hi! On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 10:23:59 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > > More and more packages are adding unicode files as unicode support has > become more reliable and available. The package building process is not > guaranteed to happen

make dpkg-buildpackage default locale UTF-8

2017-09-01 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Package: dpkg-dev More and more packages are adding unicode files as unicode support has become more reliable and available. The package building process is not guaranteed to happen in a unicode locale since the Debian default locale is LC_ALL=C, which is ASCII not UTF-8. Reading UTF-8