Re: Bug#865713: Declaring a charset of UTF-8 for policy files

debian-www, not debian-web.

Colin Watson <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:49:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I'm still a bit dubious about this, since I don't believe editors and
>> generators normally add it, but given how we generate the text versions
>> of the documents, it's relatively easy to add a leading BOM and seems
>> harmless.  I'll take a look.

> I share the discomfort in your previous message with using the UTF-8
> BOM.  I'd have thought that a better approach here would be to fix this
> at the HTTP layer:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt
> (and other text files here) should return "Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=UTF-8", not just "Content-Type: text/plain".

debian-www folks, is there a way to declare UTF-8 as the charset for all
the *.txt files that originate from the debian-policy package and are
served by www.debian.org?  I can guarantee that all the text files shipped
as part of the Policy package will be valid UTF-8.