iso-8859-1 warnings running createrepo

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 15:04:11 -0500,
>  Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>>> Is this something(s) that should be reported as a bug(s):
>>> 3419/19054 - Packages/stk-4.3.1-6.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>> iso-8859-1 encoding on /usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/???slenska.alias
>>>
>>> 6499/19054 - Packages/xfig-plain-3.2.5-11.fc10.i386.rpm
>>> iso-8859-1 encoding on Arnaud Ab???lard <arny at arny.org>
>>>
>>> 12585/19054 - Packages/abe-1.1-7.fc9.x86_64.rpm
>>> iso-8859-1 encoding on /usr/share/xblast/level/reconstruct???on2.xal
>>>
>>
>> It means there's a filename in the distro which is not utf8.
>>
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Non-ASCII_Filenames
>>
>> so, yes, I think so.
>
> Against the packages?

yes

> Is the second case really a file name? It looks like an email address not
> a file name.

The second one is from a changelog.

And to be fair, file those, too.

There shouldn't be ANY non-utf8-compliant strings in any spec file 
anywhere.

it is a source of put-near NEVER ENDING PAIN for people working in python.

-sv