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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] package_deb.bbclass: Handle exception when encoding non-ASCII characters
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On 8/13/15 2:21 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
>> Debian control files are defined to be UTF-8, so the use of an ASCII
>> encoding method is wrong
>> (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html).
>>
>> (RPM appears to assume UTF-8 too)
> 
> but check it still fine isnt it.
> 

RPM isn't really utf-8.. it's more single 8-bit characters...  UTF-8 (1 byte
characters) work fine.. multibyte are not promised to work.

If you need special encoding (more then 8-bit characters) then you should be
using 'po' style files to translate the 8-bit chars to localized versions...

So checking (and fixing) the strings for various things is a good idea for RPM
at least.

--Mark