Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?

2016-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > Ah right, indeed it does. And it's explained in that same man page I > referred. O:) The escape sequence would be something like \[u0021] or > \[u0041_0300]. Oh! So, if I can just convert all Unicode characters to their numeric codes, this becomes very easy to do. No ta

Re: [Debconf-devel] Bug#846624: debconf: invalid version in maintainer script

2016-12-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, 2016-12-02 at 18:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Reassigning to dpkg, but maybe your shell is broken or something, I > don't know.  At any rate it's not a debconf bug.  You might try > narrowing things down a bit by putting "set -x" near the