Recoding non-UTF-8 documentation?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:36:50 -0800, Wart wrote:
> 
> > iconv fixed it up quite nice.  The less output that you get from
> > rpmlint, the smoother the review.  Since the fix is simple then I
> > would just go ahead and do the conversion.
> 
> The problem I see with it is that once the automatic conversion is
> in place, it may be forgotten. What if upstream goes to UTF-8 itself?
> iconv will not catch that (every UTF-8 file is valid ISO-8859-x)

Why would this be a problem?

Ralf