> | Right now, people are putting whatever random characters they feel like
> | in Debian changelogs; they might be encoded in ISO-8859-1, BIG5,
> | ISO-8859-2, ISO-2022-JP, or who knows what. This does come up in the
> | real world; I use apt-listchanges, and I fairly often see broken
> | characters in changelogs. The solution is to define the charset of
> | changelogs as UTF-8. That way, I can read all the changelogs at once
> | (currently using gnome-terminal) and it will work.
>
> I think we shouldn't use must just yet, since this will cause a lot of
> packages (you know how many?) to be instantly buggy. If you change
> the «must» to «should», I'll second the proposal.
Erm.. no, only those packages which comply with the latest
version of policy, and it is pretty easy to add a rule to
change the encoding to utf-8 on the debian/rules install target.
Adding an example would be handy:
To install changelog from upstream that is coded in ISO-8859-15,
the following rules in your debian/rules may help:
clean:
.
rm -f debian/ChangeLog-upstream
.
.
binary:
.
.
.
iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 < ChangeLog > debian/ChangeLog-upstream
dh_installchanges debian/ChangeLog-upstream
.
.
It may help if debhelper dh_installchangelog had a
charset conversion option, maybe.
regards,
junichi
