Merge branch 'master' into bug533852-rra

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 39d87e0545c32715f1c7b511476889dfdd4b5995..ece0d271c40fff00d959dc9a24b0f9aa625036a1 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8824,15 +8824,6 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
          </footnote>
        </p>
 
-       <p>
-         Due to limitations in current implementations, all characters
-         in the manual page source should be representable in the usual
-         legacy encoding for that language, even if the file is
-         actually encoded in UTF-8. Safe alternative ways to write many
-         characters outside that range may be found in
-         <manref name="groff_char" section="7">.
-       </p>
-
        <p>
          If a localized version of a manual page is provided, it should
          either be up-to-date or it should be obvious to the reader that