Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 12/25/06, Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>> > There are problems with subj, especially if those
>> > characters get into INDEX.
>>
>> What problems, specifically? I've been doing packageruns on a
>> pointyhat-like setup for a long-time now with these ports and never ran
>> into any.
>
> env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 cut -c1 /usr/ports/INDEX > /dev/null

Fix: env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 cat /usr/ports/INDEX | iconv -c -t UTF-8 >
/dev/null

More trivial fix: env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 env LANG=C cut -c1 /usr/ports/INDEX
> /dev/null

(Okay, workarounds rather than fixes, the &#507; tends go get lost).

>
> [...]
>
> 21st century seems to be about Unicode to me.

Keeping descriptive text meant for humans to read in 7bit-ascii just so
machine readers don't get confused somewhere along the way seems pretty
1970s to me. Perhaps we should move all of ports to UTF-8. :)

(Feel free to s/&#507;/aa in the meantime by the way and commit, I can't
access CVS right now).

Cheers,
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