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 ǻ 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/ǻ/aa in the meantime by the way and commit, I can't access CVS right now). Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://kf.liquidneon.com/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
