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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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