-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/11/2016 12:11 AM, P Levine wrote: > Glep 31 states that text files in the portage tree should use UTF-8 encoding. I see nothing indicating any standard encoding for files in the /etc/portage directory. Since everything I have seen in portage's python source-code seems to imply Unicode as valid but I can see nothing specific to UTF-8, I thought I'd ask. Is there any official Gentoo standard documentation that defines the acceptable set of character encodings for files in /etc/portage?
I just glanced over Glep 31 and it does not say that. It is talking about ChangeLogs and metadata.xml (because they contain developer names with unicode characters). For patches and such it says to follow upstream suit. If you try to use non-ASCII characters on ebuilds repoman will whine so I suppose only ascii is supported and likewise there's nothing that I know of on /etc/portage that requires non ascii characters. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXhi9JAAoJEPbOFX/5UlwcDzEP/iea/YL+ZlyZ9Cg9FuknuxNF k/CZZFgUcHDfqFQswEsgARTfPEkP9TQkLqg53LswftcvfWcfs020HmOIRWe4h0uI gBprWHAH1cKb6sN8psEnYNFNgc7UBwguXfLvPOv4kEtsLsYVA+CQ9zj/Y82yGEMu yPtNXJUvQ1xyFMdWlXOwy0dt3DWcSozVLy8odjO8LP/LFH0c2lTtoY/UrtSFRt/l ASSbpj6m0A3KvtrQsCxYG1muht4YHePTRQ46vZdr1XbS8SIHhz8au+Ed9e5cK6CH 3+UNh4qKAbgugVxNjp7qnQxyth2yRMTJzyTw6LTk+p/5S2kF0gNmRUBYMgYgJ+KZ bmI1RsbjDeQXwngl8EA3wkBNOBl/6sq8QCNd7LxoCXGuNDRRDr2Eg2TIpOt90ZdQ 7rrr7G4LlrttByoLGzn85VFePbr8M52GmjN7la5kX+FFMwk+Ynx4HJSwbTHp6tMe q9ge1JznO6LHhGXzTzoKvY7xzvdEMGLItfSnZxvkD0xrU/hxpkiyoa7Xrmb35UR5 KmcQW7ZuXKYnWTjSCH9BUCNxkdd8z6WyGQUulVhNSn7Zyi7Edc/aP7lpkX5XBE3/ blif32JjinjcmlUSRfY6I+xYGDNfnChrJXq22uXz4laXxjIZ9qyUGsUVhC8s9rl3 W5KDa1rgHbNI7u0xnd/e =ayxA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
