Daniel Johnson wrote:
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?
I would vote for 7-bit ASCII, if possible. Everything else gives trouble. Just look at the package database and try to find the packages maintained by the maintainers of gtktalog or recode: 0 packages found. I doubt that recoding their names in unicode would help there, but I am sure they can live without the accents on their names in the info files.
One of the main advantages of the Fink info format is that it can be handled by a wide variety of tools from different backgrounds and with different purposes.
-- Martin
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