Ross/Raj, thanks for your comments. I will send a v2 patches, this time
with the correct checks (invalid characters are those non-UTF8) and
patch titles.
On 08/13/2015 02:34 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
On 13 August 2015 at 20:21, Khem Raj raj.k...@gmail.com wrote:
but check it still fine isnt
From: Leonardo Sandoval leonardo.sandoval.gonza...@linux.intel.com
On package creation, handle exception when encoding non-ASCII characteres.
[YOCTO #6693]
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Sandoval leonardo.sandoval.gonza...@linux.intel.com
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meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass | 4
1 file changed,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote:
Debian control files are defined to be UTF-8, so the use of an ASCII
encoding method is wrong
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html).
(RPM appears to assume UTF-8 too)
but check it still
On 13 August 2015 at 20:21, Khem Raj raj.k...@gmail.com wrote:
but check it still fine isnt it.
Of course, gracefully handling encoding failures is still sensible.
Ross
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On 13 August 2015 at 20:31, Mark Hatle mark.ha...@windriver.com wrote:
RPM isn't really utf-8.. it's more single 8-bit characters... UTF-8 (1
byte
characters) work fine.. multibyte are not promised to work.
If you need special encoding (more then 8-bit characters) then you should
be
using
On 13 August 2015 at 09:58, leonardo.sandoval.gonza...@linux.intel.com
wrote:
On package creation, handle exception when encoding non-ASCII characteres.
Debian control files are defined to be UTF-8, so the use of an ASCII
encoding method is wrong (
On 8/13/15 2:21 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote:
Debian control files are defined to be UTF-8, so the use of an ASCII
encoding method is wrong
(https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html).
(RPM appears to
