No way Jose! rpmbuild (and *.rpm metadata) can NOT have any encoding assumed.
Encoding is for DISPLAY, not for octets. Put unicode into package metadata at your own peril. Meanwhile -- without an means to specify encoding in metadata -- rpm in C has *ONLY* 8 bit clean octet's and the usual conventions for NUL terminated strings. Until there's a well defined means of specifying encoding for all tag strings -- and that's a fundamental design change to *.rpm packaging that likely will NEVER happen -- the problem simply CANNOT be fixed to meet naive luser expectations, and all attempts to "fix" anything are just doomed. C has octest, not utf8, and rpmdb strings are _NOT_ based on LC_ALL and other i18n/l10n conventions. You can of course put whatever garbage you wish into strings that will be stored as keys in an rpmdb, subject to all the usual GIGO conventions distro's wish to inflict upon their customers. 73 de Jeff On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > RPM Package Manager, CVS Repository > http://rpm5.org/cvs/ > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > Server: rpm5.org Name: Per Øyvind Karlsen > Root: /v/rpm/cvs Email: pkarl...@rpm5.org > Module: rpm Date: 05-Apr-2011 21:29:41 > Branch: HEAD Handle: 2011040519294000 > > Modified files: > rpm CHANGES build.c > > Log: > accept unicode characters. > > Summary: > Revision Changes Path > 1.3601 +1 -0 rpm/CHANGES > 2.125 +1 -1 rpm/build.c > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > patch -p0 <<'@@ .' > Index: rpm/CHANGES > ============================================================================ > $ cvs diff -u -r1.3600 -r1.3601 CHANGES > --- rpm/CHANGES 3 Apr 2011 22:58:05 -0000 1.3600 > +++ rpm/CHANGES 5 Apr 2011 19:29:40 -0000 1.3601 > @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ > 5.4.0 -> 5.4.1: > + - proyvind: rpmbuild: accept unicode characters. > - jbj: mongo: drag-in the test suite. grdfs/replica_sets todo++. > - jbj: mongo: and re-export the mongo-c-driver through librpmio.vers. > - jbj: mongo: pull in the gridfs methods from the mongo-c-driver too. > @@ . > patch -p0 <<'@@ .' > Index: rpm/build.c > ============================================================================ > $ cvs diff -u -r2.124 -r2.125 build.c > --- rpm/build.c 10 Feb 2010 20:24:49 -0000 2.124 > +++ rpm/build.c 5 Apr 2011 19:29:40 -0000 2.125 > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ > /*@switchbreak@*/ break; > /*@-boundsread@*/ > default: > - if (checking && !(isprint(*s) || isspace(*s))) return 0; > + if (checking && !(isprint(*s) || isspace(*s)) && *(unsigned char > *)s < 32) return 0; > /*@switchbreak@*/ break; > /*@=boundsread@*/ > } > @@ . > ______________________________________________________________________ > RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org > CVS Sources Repository rpm-...@rpm5.org ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
