Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:44:59
Message-Id: 20041008174024.18e02618@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: Fw: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding by Luke-Jr
1 [ hopefully on the list and able to post to it now, if not please
2 forward ]
3
4 On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:26:33 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:
5 | > Yup. We *need* to have an official encoding. Reason being, at least
6 | > one developer has a non-(ASCII as in characters 0..126 only)
7 |
8 | ASCII defines 128 characters: 0-127
9 | Why cut the last off?
10
11 As I recall, 127 is flaky. Come to think of it, so is 0-31ish as well.
12 So maybe I should've said [a-zA-Z0-9\-_,.<>?/\\;:'@#~\]{}\+="$%^&* ] or
13 something... Basically, anything even the slightest bit flaky, plus
14 newlines, is prone to explode.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
18 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
19 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding Ed Grimm <paranoid@××××××××××××××××××××××.org>