* Re: [gentoo-dev] The tree is now utf-8 clean
@ 2005-09-17 17:15 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2005-09-17 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw
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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. There are some ebuilds that use that
curly paragraph marker character (§) and weird curly quotes. Those're
the ones that cause problems.
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