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

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:20:40 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> > % 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.
> 
> You're right.
> 
> According to perlrun(1), you can run also cme this way :
> $ perl -C A -S cme modify dpkg-control '...'

Ack.
 
> I'll tweak cme upstream to assume that @ARGV is utf8. I'll assume that 
> everybody use utf8 (even outside of Debian) until a bug report proves me 
> wrong.

Thanks, sounds good to me.
 
> There's nothing I can do with the 2nd form you propose. Even with a one-liner, 
> you writing a script and you have to inform perl that you are using utf8 in 
> the script.

Sure, I just wanted to try a different option :)


Cheers,
gregor

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