Bug#839593: cme: support (or switch to) UTF-8 encoding

[gregor herrmann]

Package: cme
Version: 1.014-1
Severity: wishlist

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I just tried to help someone to add themselves to Uploaders
programmatically; unfortunately their first name contains a non-ascii
character (the following is a test name, just the 'í' is taken from
the real one).

Both

% cme modify dpkg-control 'source Uploaders:.insort("María Prueba <m at example.org>")'

and

% perl -MConfig::Model=cme -e 'cme("dpkg-control")->modify("source Uploaders:.insort(\"María Prueba <m\@example.org>\")");'

result in a broken 'í', which gets mangled into 'Ã', probably because
perl's default encoding is still latin1.

The following works for me:

% perl -Mutf8 -MConfig::Model=cme -e 'cme("dpkg-control")->modify("source Uploaders:.insort(\"María Prueba <m\@example.org>\")");'

(also with utf8::all but apparently utf8 is enough).


IIRC, files in debian/ should be UTF-8 encoded, so I think it would
make sense to assume UTF-8 as the default encoding, or at least add a
switch to cme(1) or read the encoding from the terminal or something
like this.


Cheers,
gregor

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