Unicode characters improperly displayed in PPA changelog

[Artem Popov]

I have uploaded a package to my PPA, and noticed that my name from debian/changelog entry, which contains international characters is converted to latin, but it's looking kinda weird: "Aerteieem PEopeove" :) That's certainly something absolutely non-pronouncable. I think Debian allows unicode in changelogs, and that should be enabled for PPAs as well.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Can you please provide the package name, so we can investigate the issue properly ?

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Sure, it's supercollider-3.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1, the changelog is displayed directly on the archive page:
https://launchpad.net/~artfwo/+archive

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

According to James Troup: the Correct thing to do, is to handle UTF-8 maintainer fields and RFC-2047 encode them in soyuz, rather than ASCII-smash.

But since this problem doesn't really block any work, in the sense the package gets accepted, it will get low priority during 2.0.

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

Hello,

  I got the same problem too (my name is in arabic). I notice that arabic letters get transliterated into latin.