Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:27:53PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: >> I have a question about the encoding of the files in the Debian >> subdirectory. AFAIK it's recommended to use ASCII only in debian/control >> (AFAIK the policy does not contain a note about this problem). But what >> to do with debian/copyright and special characters in names? Is there >> any recommendation for the encoding? Should UTF-8 be used as encoding to >> avoid misspelling a name? If there is no recommendation, I want to know, >> what you think about this? > > Current de-facto standard is: Use UTF-8, use only the latin alphabet > (i.e., no chinese or something). > > There is no policy on it (yet), expect one after sarge.
There is: file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ap-pkg-sourcepkg.html#s-pkg-dpkgchangelog The problem is only that the name in changelog has to match the name in control/dsc and friends, and it says that some tools still have problems with utf-8 in control files. However, I've been using utf-8 for tetex's changelog and control for months, with my name in it, and I never heard of any problems. Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
