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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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