Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding

[Ed Grimm]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:26:33 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:
>|> Yup. We *need* to have an official encoding. Reason being, at least
>|> one developer has a non-(ASCII as in characters 0..126 only)
>|
>| ASCII defines 128 characters: 0-127
>| Why cut the last off?
>
> As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as well.
> So maybe I should've said [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or
> something... Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus
> newlines, is prone to explode.

I hope you like long lines.

Might I propose [\n\t\r -~]?

However, I suggest that any programs that cannot deal with characters
0-127 are broken and should be fixed.  Admittedly, outputing 27 to the
terminal raw could trigger a security hole in many terminals, and
several other terminals have problems with another character (I'm
vaguely thinking 17, but not sure.)

(The preceeding paragraph should not be taken as an alternate solution,
but one to combine with restricting characters to the above recommended
9, 10, 13, 32-126.)

Ed

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