[GuidelinesChange] UTF8 filenames

Gary Benson gbenson at redhat.com
Wed Apr 11 08:29:49 UTC 2007


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 11 avril 2007 08:55, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> > We could define it as a negative "(ASCII does not include accented
> > letters or special symbols like ©)".
> 
> Been there, tried that, anything but a chart or an image like the
> one you proposed is not a sufficient cluestick

Whatever we say, why not back that up with a check in rpmbuild?
Like the _unpackaged_files_terminate_build one?  One of the features
of UTF-8 is that you can distinguish it from non-UTF-8 with a decent
probability of success.

Cheers,
Gary




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