Hi Ryan, I agree that it "should" not be a problem, but it actually crashed both 'port search' and 'svn diff' commands for me which seemed like a pretty significant problem. Also that character renders in various different ways (for cat, emacs, etc.), mostly erroneous, so it fails in the goal of communication if you get à or ? instead of the desired character.
David On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > czmq, crossroads, py-zmq: changed references to 0MQ that used the O with > slash special character. This was displayed as à in commands such as 'port > search' and indeed crashed the command so that no further output would be > shown after it (at least on my machines). Same happened for 'svn diff' even > for this commit. By contrast, in other places this library is referred to > as 0MQ or ZeroMQ, which does not cause such problems. > > Use of non-ASCII characters in portfiles should not be a problem. > Portfiles are defined as being UTF-8 files and they display fine for me as > such in the terminal. Many other ports use UTF-8 characters, such as smart > quotes, and I don't think we should attempt to go back to using ASCII only > because it's just so limiting. > > > >
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