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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: Re: changelog encoding
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:53:16 +0100
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:05:16 -0500 (EST) Ed Grimm
<paranoid@...> wrote:
| On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as
| > well. So maybe I should've said
| > [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or something...
| > Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus newlines, is
| > prone to explode.
| 
| I hope you like long lines.

Well, remember that there's no standard way of doing newlines. Or that
there're at least three standards, depending upon how you look at it. 

Eh, not that this is really relevant anyway. All that matters is that
ASCII is insufficient and that UTF-8 is most likely the best
alternative.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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