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The tree is now utf-8 clean. Or it is to the extent that a computer can |
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reasonably determine... If the relevant people are prepared to smack |
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anyone who refuses to play nice then now would be a good time to |
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unwithdraw GLEP 31, make compliance mandatory and add glep31check [1] to |
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repoman or server-side. |
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There are still a few instances of munged character sequences that |
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happen to also be valid UTF-8. If you come across one, feel free to fix |
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it. |
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If you have weird characters in your name, please make especially sure |
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that you're getting your ChangeLog name right. These are far more common |
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than occasional user credit ChangeLog entries. Also, if your name on the |
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devlist [2] isn't accented, pester someone to update it. |
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Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes and |
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non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird characters |
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as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will break on many |
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systems. I'm going to go and purge all of those, UTF-8 or not, whenever |
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my brain recovers. |
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As far as editor support... On those really rare occasions when you need |
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to enter UTF-8 text in ebuilds, vim, emacs and nano should all more or |
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less work. For ChangeLogs, echangelog is utf-8 transparent, meaning if |
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you run it from a UTF-8 terminal it should be ok. We have a guide [3] if |
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you want to know more... |
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[1]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/toys/glep31check-0.3.3.tar.bz2 |
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[2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml |
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[3]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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