Le lundi 20 octobre 2008 à 21:15 -0200, Andre Felipe Machado a écrit :
> Is there a safe way to automatically convert this file during upgrading
> from Etch to Lenny?
> Could iconv or recode be used safely in packaging scripts? What is the
> correct approach for the upgrade?

The correct approach is to stop supporting non-UTF8 locales, since
programs like adduser will edit this file in the current character set.
This approach is inherently broken and cannot be made to work magically.

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