On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:34:44 -0400 Ray Kohler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200 > > Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 > > > > Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > Hi there, > > > >> > I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show > > > >> > my name correctly when the character encoding in the > > > >> > PKGBUILD is utf-8. > > > >> > > > > >> > Is there a recommended encoding? > > > >> > iso-8859-1? > > > >> > Something else? > > > >> > > > > >> > I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files > > > >> > and want to avoid issues in future. > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. > > > >> see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150 > > > >> > > > >> Maybe there is a problem with AUR. > > > >> I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link > > > >> to a problematic pkgbuild? > > > > > > > > Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses > > > > utf-8: > > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD > > > > > > > > The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at > > > > least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ. > > > > > > > > > > Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal > > > > Thanks, this works, but: > > it was set to utf-8, so this makes me believe that there's still > > something wrong somewhere. > > > > The galan-git PKGBUILD looked fine to me without changing anything, > but my dvdwizard one only looked right after setting "Auto Detect -> > Universal". Weird. On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/ What did I do wrong there? The patch was created using: diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch
