On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:01:21AM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
> we have disabled the contents generator of apt-ftparchive and replaced
> it by a new implementation in dak. There are some visible changes:
> 
[Contents.gz]
> 
> 2) The encoding in proper UTF-8. ISO8859-1 filenames are re-coded
> automatically. To find out what happens to other encodings is left as an
> exercise to the reader. :)

Can we get RC bugs for every file name in packages that is not proper UTF-8? 
These packages will be uninstallable on some filesystems.

On the other hand, for ancient charsets, UTF-8 filenames will be mangled but
accessible.

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                //      Never attribute to stupidity what can be
                //      adequately explained by malice.


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