From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:27:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Mandate UTF-8 for all control files
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77bf49a147844ab0af306ef945bf37be462ceef1;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

Mandate UTF-8 for all control files

Closes: #143941
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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 24c9072..0f9fbdc 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2344,6 +2344,9 @@ Package: libc6
 	  would mean a new paragraph.
 	</p>
 
+	<p>
+	  All control files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+	</p>
       </sect>
 
       <sect id="sourcecontrolfiles">