Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:57:47
Message-Id: 20041009145316.1c788f31@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding by Ed Grimm
1 On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:05:16 -0500 (EST) Ed Grimm
2 <paranoid@××××××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 | On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as
5 | > well. So maybe I should've said
6 | > [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or something...
7 | > Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus newlines, is
8 | > prone to explode.
9 |
10 | I hope you like long lines.
11
12 Well, remember that there's no standard way of doing newlines. Or that
13 there're at least three standards, depending upon how you look at it.
14
15 Eh, not that this is really relevant anyway. All that matters is that
16 ASCII is insufficient and that UTF-8 is most likely the best
17 alternative.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
21 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
22 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net>