Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 in GLEP56 use flags?

[Ben de Groot]

Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:13:14PM +0000, Ben de Groot (yngwin) wrote:
>> Index: metadata.xml
>> ===================================================================
> ...
>> +    <flag name='webkit'>
>> +      Enable <pkg>x11-libs/qt-webkit</pkg> support, for more
>> +      sophisticated online help display using webkit???s HTML renderer.
>> +    </flag>
>> +  </use>
>>  </pkgmetadata>
>
> I don't think there is any precedence here, but Unicode should not turn
> up in the English useflag descriptions, at least not while we are still
> generating use.local.desc for users.
>
> This one was really annoying, U+2019 "Right single quotation mark",
> which renders identically to an apostrophe, at least on my fonts.
>
> It briefly broke the use.local.desc generation, because that had been
> set for ASCII.
>
> Should we allow UTF-8 in the English variant? Are all the programs that
> still read use.local.desc UTF-8 safe? Do we have a deprecation schedule
> for use.local.desc being removed totally?
>
The xml header in each metadata.xml states that the content is UTF-8
encoded, and any XML parser has to be able to handle this. Also, when
used literally in xml, the 5 special characters & ' " < >  cause a
well-formedness error, as far as I know. U+2019 is the recommended form
of using the apostrophe. So in my opinion, if we want to use xml, we
should use unicode properly.

Cheers,

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Ben de Groot
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