On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:33:04AM -0500, Daniel Johnson wrote: > Is there a policy about what encoding to use for .info files?
They are supposed to be "plain text files" in the traditional Unix sense. As such, I don't think there's is any issue about encoding. The validator emits a warning if a .info file contains characters not part of the POSIX :ascii: class. > The fink tool (or specifically perl 5.8.x) and online package > database seem to expect Unicode while FinkCommander assumes > MacRoman. There are two files, gtktalog.info and recode.info that > use MacRoman in the Maintainer field. Yup, 'fink validate' on those files gives: Warning: "maintainer" contains non-standard characters. (gtktalog.info) Warning: "maintainer" contains non-standard characters. (recode.info) > Thus they show correctly in FinkCommander but not > anywhere else. If I change those files to UTF-8, "fink info" gives the > correct result. Of course, then FinkCommander is wrong. :) I came > across this issue because I'm working on a Cocoa program that reads > package info from fink, and since Cocoa assumes text is in Unicode, Bad > Things were happening with those two files. As in crashing. I had to > explicitly convert the text from MacRoman first, like FinkCommander > does. ...and that kind of "how do I encode this portably?" weirdness is one of the reasons we want everything in plain-text ASCII. So the proper solution is to not use non-ASCII chars:) I just patched those two .info files in 10.3/unstable. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
