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