Le Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:11:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:51:45 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > I think that it emerges from the discussion that there are good uses of > > Unicode, and that somebody would need to step up and ensure that a dozen of > > packages are corrected if we were to restrict further the encoding of file > > names. Moreover, there seems to be a good self-discipline, and Unicode is > > not used in paths that are central on non-Unicode systems. > > > > Given that currently the Policy does not mention anything about file names, > > I > > think that it would be fair to fill the gap by documenting the use of > > Unicode > > as current practice and recommend ASCII for most cases. This does not > > preculde > > further restrictions if needed. I volunteer to contact the maintainer of > > lletters-media and ooohg, the only packages with non-Unicode file names. > > > > I attached a slightly updated patch. I have not added that the policy is > > for > > 'the files that have been created after the binary package is "Installed"', > > because I think that it is clear throughrough chapter 10 that "installed > > files" > > means this. Nevertheless, it would be nice to have such a definition black > > on > > white somewhere else, to be discussed in another thread. > > > You say unicode everywhere but you seem to actually mean utf-8...
Indeed I meant UTF-8, sorry for being confusing. The patch to the Policy already mentions UTF-8: + <sec id="filenames"> + <heading>File names</heading> + + <p> + The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages + must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII when they + can be represented in that character set. + </p> I have just opened #703177 on ooohg, and figured out that there is already #659345 for lletters-media. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
