Hi Christophe,

> could you please change the encoding on installed FreeImage.h header?
> The actual encoding is no longer ASCII since you introduced a second > author "hervé".
> This change may cause some packages to FTBS.

You meant *upstream* introduced a second author, not us?

I saw that Fedora is solving the inconsistent encoding by converting all source files to UTF-8 [1]. Would that solve your problem?

[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/freeimage/

> Trying to install salome from source FTBS because of this change.
> The installer tries to recover FreeImage version by using grep > VERSION in FreeImage.h

> The non ASCII encoding somehow breaks this as the grep command no
> longer returns the lines including "VERSION". Instead the grep
> command return a message "Binary .... matches".

> Changing "hervé" to herve fix the problem.

Sounds that the version parsing of `salome` is a bit fragile too.

Ghis

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