From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:06:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509171606.51666.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050917181531.087bd128@snowdrop.home>
On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda"
>
> <ferdy@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes
> | | and non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird
> | | characters as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will break
> | | on many systems. I'm going to go and purge all of those, UTF-8 or
> | | not, whenever my brain recovers.
> |
> | I hope ~ is not considered a weird character... if it is, tell me and
> | I'll fix all my ebuilds.
>
> No, ~ is fine. Anything with a value below 127 (don't use 127, it's
> weird) that sed accepts is ok.
in other words, ASCII characters are OK. if in doubt, just run `man ascii`
and see if your character is in the table
-mike
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-17 1:42 [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-17 10:56 ` Fernando J. Pereda
2005-09-17 12:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dan Meltzer
2005-09-17 17:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-17 17:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-17 20:06 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2005-09-19 9:52 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-09-19 10:43 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-09-28 18:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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