Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

You probably don't want to use the ascii control characters either 
(anything below 32), although they should not give issues with people 
they could cause havoc for terminals or annoy people (using the BELL 
character as sed separator).

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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