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 17:14:36
Message-Id: 20041009181004.62a91f7a@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding by Brian
1 On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 08:24:38 -0700 Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net> wrote:
2 | I have changed porthole's code to try decode(utf_8), then try
3 | decode(iso-8859-1). Failing either of those Porthole will display an
4 | unknown encoding error and to please report it to bugs.gentoo.org as
5 | well as porthole's bug tracker.
6
7 Since there's no documented standard... Could one of you portage people
8 please post a message to -dev saying "as of now, use UTF-8 for ebuilds
9 and changelogs if at all possible"? I can update app-vim/gentoo-syntax
10 and the default vimrc to encourange fileencoding to be uft-8 for these
11 things...
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
15 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
16 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] changelog encoding Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>