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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
Subject: Re: GLEP 31: Character sets for portage tree items -- Updates
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:36:41 -0500
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

| Generating metadata.xml files correctly in these editors could become
problematic.
| The ``vim`` and ``emacs`` editors, which appear to be most widely used,
| are both capable of handling UTF-8 cleanly -- for vim, this could be
| configured automatically via the ``gentoo-syntax`` ([4]_) package.

Just a minor comment.  Maybe pythonhead's metagen can be modified to produce
utf-8 encoded metadata.xml's (it could already for all I know.. I'm clueless
when it comes to file encodings)?

Then maybe we can encourage that to be used much as echangelog is used for
generating ChangeLog entries.

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