Recoding non-UTF-8 documentation?

Wart wart at kobold.org
Tue Feb 28 15:36:50 UTC 2006


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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Is there ever a case where it's worth it to recode documentation to
> satisfy a "file-not-utf8" warning from rpmlint?  Some packages fix up
> line endings to quiet rpmlint but I'm not sure about altering the
> character encoding.
> 
> If not, then would it be reasonable to remove this warning from
> rpmlint?

I had this problem with xpilot-ng:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179818#c2

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.

- --Wart
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