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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:44
Message-Id: 49594FD9.5080906@gentoo.org
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4 Hi,
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6 In response to bug 252748 I've implemented a new
7 'variable.invalidchar' repoman check that will trigger if an ebuild
8 metadata variable contains any characters that aren't in the ASCII
9 character set (0-127). Is this okay, or does anybody think that we
10 should allow UTF-8 unicode?
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12 Thanks,
13 Zac
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