[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] package_deb.bbclass: Handle exception when encoding non-ASCII characters

[Burton, Ross]

On 13 August 2015 at 20:31, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:

> RPM isn't really utf-8.. it's more single 8-bit characters...  UTF-8 (1
> byte
> characters) work fine.. multibyte are not promised to work.
>
> If you need special encoding (more then 8-bit characters) then you should
> be
> using 'po' style files to translate the 8-bit chars to localized
> versions...
>
> So checking (and fixing) the strings for various things is a good idea for
> RPM
> at least.
>

In the common case of "maintainer's name isn't ASCII" you don't want it
translated, and assuming UTF-8 everywhere mostly works.

Ross
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