Recoding non-UTF-8 documentation?

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Tue Feb 28 15:40:00 UTC 2006


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)




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