Is there a policy about what encoding to use for .info files? The fink
tool (or specifically perl 5.8.x) and online package database seem to
expect Unicode while FinkCommander assumes MacRoman. There are two
files, gtktalog.info and recode.info, that use MacRoman in the
Maintainer field. Thus they show correctly in FinkCommander but not
anywhere else. If I change those files to UTF-8, "fink info" gives the
correct result. Of course, then FinkCommander is wrong. :) I came
across this issue because I'm working on a Cocoa program that reads
package info from fink, and since Cocoa assumes text is in Unicode, Bad
Things were happening with those two files. As in crashing. I had to
explicitly convert the text from MacRoman first, like FinkCommander
does.
I couldn't find anything in the Packaging Manual about this. Perhaps a
good policy would be to require all .info files to use UTF-8 and
document this?
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