Coding system of %doc file

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Nov 24 18:31:45 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 18:56 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> Some usual doc files, like AUTHORS, use accented characters. The packaging 
> guidelines do not tell anything about the coding of those files. rpmlint used 
> to signal non-utf-8 files, but my version rpmlint-0.78-2.fc5 no longer do.
> 
> Is there a policy? 

We should probably work with upstream to fix them as much as we can.
Failing that, use iconv during the rpm build.

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