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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
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-30  7:46 UTC|newest]

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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-25 13:08 Peter Cech
2004-08-25 15:31 ` Andrew Cooks

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