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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda"
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<ferdy@g.o> wrote:
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| On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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| | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes
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| | and non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird
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| | characters as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will break
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| | on many systems. I'm going to go and purge all of those, UTF-8 or
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| | not, whenever my brain recovers.
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| I hope ~ is not considered a weird character... if it is, tell me and
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| I'll fix all my ebuilds.
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No, ~ is fine. Anything with a value below 127 (don't use 127, it's
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weird) that sed accepts is ok. There are some ebuilds that use that
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curly paragraph marker character (ยง) and weird curly quotes. Those're
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the ones that cause problems.
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--
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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 |