[Fedora-packaging] file-not-utf8 complaints

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 31 May 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:56:33PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Reencoding the xml files that specify an encoding isn't strictly
> > necessary.  We should probably ask upstream whether they are amenable to
>
> I think that reencoding files that carry over the encoding information
> (info, texinfo, tex and xml for example) is wrong. It is better to let
> upstream do whatever they want.

I agree with Toshio on this one, IMO it's not necessarily wrong.  Anyway wrt. 
XML files, upstreams probably wouldn't mind a friendly reminder that the only 
encodings conformant XML processors are required to support are UTF-8 and 
UTF-16.