On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:37:24 +0530 "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 And none of that is relevant to Zacs original question, which is covered by the following section of the GLEP: "However, developers should be warned that any code which is parsed by bash (in other words, non-comments), and any output which is echoed to the screen (for example, einfo messages) or given to portage (for example any of the standard global variables) must not use anything outside the regular ASCII 0..127 range for compatibility purposes." Marius
