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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2016-10-04 10:20:40)
> On Sunday, 2 October 2016 16:18:38 CEST you wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You're right.
> 
> According to perlrun(1), you can run also cme this way :
> $ perl -C A -S cme modify dpkg-control '...'
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. I see no other way that the one you found:
> 
> > 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).

Are you aware of "perldoc perlunicook"?

That documentation helped me get straight which options controlled which 
pats of the Unicode maze.


 - Jonas

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