On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes > | | and non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird > | | characters as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will break > | | on many systems. I'm going to go and purge all of those, UTF-8 or > | | not, whenever my brain recovers. > | > | I hope ~ is not considered a weird character... if it is, tell me and > | I'll fix all my ebuilds. > > No, ~ is fine. Anything with a value below 127 (don't use 127, it's > weird) that sed accepts is ok.
in other words, ASCII characters are OK. if in doubt, just run `man ascii` and see if your character is in the table -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
