-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2016 08:08 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > 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. > > Actually, it does says it, my bad. But repoman does complains if you use non-ASCII characters and it says not to print non-ASCII so I guess it's talking about comments.
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