On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> Nevermind, apparently GLEP 31 already requires ASCII anyway: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0031.html >> > The way I read that GLEP is that in ChangeLog and metadata.xml > we should accept the full range of UTF-8.
I read that as "contents of portage tree should be in UTF-8, file paths should be in ASCII" "It is proposed that UTF-8 ([1]) is used for encoding ChangeLog and metadata.xml files inside the portage tree." "[...]it is proposed that UTF-8 is used as the official encoding for ebuild and eclass files" "Patches must clearly be in the same character set as the file they are patching." "Characters outside the ASCII 0..127 range cannot safely be used for file or directory names" It is also worth mentioning that Python 3K uses UTF-8 as the default encoding for it's files rather than ASCII as Python 2.X did. Why should *we* go backwards? :p -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan
