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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:43:47
Message-Id: 495952AD.7060701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should unicode be allowed in ebuild metadata variables? by Zac Medico
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4 Zac Medico wrote:
5 > Hi,
6 >
7 > In response to bug 252748 I've implemented a new
8 > 'variable.invalidchar' repoman check that will trigger if an ebuild
9 > metadata variable contains any characters that aren't in the ASCII
10 > character set (0-127). Is this okay, or does anybody think that we
11 > should allow UTF-8 unicode?
12
13 Nevermind, apparently GLEP 31 already requires ASCII anyway:
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15 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0031.html
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18 Thanks,
19 Zac
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