Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So should changelog files for debian packages be UTF8

Yes.

> and if so are there any that actually are

lintian's is, at least.  Many others are these days as well.  All of my
packages have UTF-8 changelog files, although not all actually have
non-ASCII characters.

> and does lintian have a simple check to ensure no illegal characters are
> in the file as per UTF8 rules?

Yup.  Has for years.

debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding is the tag.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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