From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming repoman check will fail on large files in the tree
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:43:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040730084319.6500ab81@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730070001.GA27235@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:00:01 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson"
<robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > Ok, since I've been asked about this several times on IRC... Some
| > people have names which include non-[A-Za-z] characters.
| UTF8 != binary.
UFT-8 (sometimes) uses the upper bit on certain bytes. It is therefore,
in the traditional sense, binary. You could, of course, just not mark it
as such for CVS...
| > Incidentally, when are we going to officially standardise on UTF-8
| > for ChangeLog and ebuilds?
| There is absolutely nothing I'm aware of stopping you from using UTF
| already in ChangeLogs and ebuilds, barring some common sense
| limitations, like bash not accepting non-ASCII for the names of
| variables and functions.
No, but not everyone is using UTF-8, resulting in horridly mixed files.
Hence the "officially standardise". Right now we have a mess.
--
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 9:52 [gentoo-dev] Upcoming repoman check will fail on large files in the tree Brian Harring
2004-07-29 14:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-07-29 19:53 ` Jason Rhinelander
2004-07-30 3:15 ` Georgi Georgiev
2004-07-30 3:20 ` Brian Harring
2004-07-30 3:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-07-30 4:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-07-30 7:00 ` Robin H. Johnson
2004-07-30 7:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2004-08-25 6:56 ` Tavis Ormandy
2004-08-25 14:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-25 17:19 ` Robert Moss
2004-08-26 14:34 ` Eldad Zack
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2004-08-25 13:08 Peter Cech
2004-08-25 15:31 ` Andrew Cooks
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