From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23137 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 07:46:02 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Jul 2004 07:46:02 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BqS5X-0000qR-1N for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:45:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 10373 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jul 2004 07:45:58 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6132 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2004 07:45:58 +0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:43:19 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040730084319.6500ab81@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040730070001.GA27235@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> References: <1091094759.6176.23.camel@6-allhosts> <200407291015.20390.vapier@gentoo.org> <410955B0.1030301@gossamer-threads.com> <20040730031549.GA25543@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> <20040730042229.49ed034a@snowdrop.home> <20040730050727.7b6f82ee@snowdrop.home> <20040730070001.GA27235@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Fri__30_Jul_2004_08_43_19_+0100_7wPLhvQvPdn40M/B" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming repoman check will fail on large files in the tree X-Archives-Salt: 2cf9749d-a70a-4cd4-868c-9c10ff13d645 X-Archives-Hash: 33270078ead32eb3abfef36184917219 --Signature=_Fri__30_Jul_2004_08_43_19_+0100_7wPLhvQvPdn40M/B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:00:01 -0700 "Robin H. Johnson" 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 --Signature=_Fri__30_Jul_2004_08_43_19_+0100_7wPLhvQvPdn40M/B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCfwb96zL6DUtXhERAjiuAJ9MyDNHw+txgNF2a3jokvYTu9xUjgCfVohA Vtg1hLxISqDdGTRYuSpU3Sk= =18Jh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Fri__30_Jul_2004_08_43_19_+0100_7wPLhvQvPdn40M/B--