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From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:38:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041009193820.29ab0f87@andy.genone.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041009181004.62a91f7a@snowdrop.home>

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On 10/09/04  Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 08:24:38 -0700 Brian <dol-sen@telus.net> wrote:
> |    I have changed porthole's code to try decode(utf_8), then try
> | decode(iso-8859-1).  Failing either of those Porthole will display
> | an unknown encoding error and to please report it to bugs.gentoo.org
> | as well as porthole's bug tracker.
> 
> Since there's no documented standard... Could one of you portage
> people please post a message to -dev saying "as of now, use UTF-8 for
> ebuilds and changelogs if at all possible"? I can update
> app-vim/gentoo-syntax and the default vimrc to encourange fileencoding
> to be uft-8 for these things...

No problem for ChangeLogs, but for ebuilds we probably need to make a
difference between the portage-visible parts and the normal bash stuff
as portage itself can only handle ascii internally.

Marius

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-09 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-08 15:29 Fw: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding Marius Mauch
2004-10-08 16:26 ` Luke-Jr
2004-10-08 16:40   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-10-09  1:05     ` Ed Grimm
2004-10-09 13:53       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-10-09 15:24         ` Brian
2004-10-09 17:10           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-10-09 17:38             ` Marius Mauch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-08  4:19 Brian
2004-10-08 12:31 ` Marius Mauch
2004-10-08 17:34 ` George Shapovalov

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