| Title: | Character Sets for Portage Tree Items |
|---|---|
| Version: | 1.3 | +
| Version: | 1.4 |
| Author: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm at gentoo.org> |
| Last-Modified: | 2004/11/11 21:38:05 | +
| Last-Modified: | 2005/10/30 21:35:50 |
| Status: | Approved |
| Type: | Standards Track |
| Content-Type: | text/x-rst | +
| Content-Type: | text/x-rst |
| Created: | 27-October-2004 | +
| Created: | 27-Oct-2004 |
| Post-Date: | 28-October-2004, 1-November-2004, 11-November-2004 | +
| Post-History: | 28-Oct-2004, 1-Nov-2004, 11-Nov-2004 |
The existing tree uses a mixture of encodings. It would be straightforward to fix existing ChangeLogs and metadata files to use UTF-8.
-The echangelog tool is character-set agnostic. In order to properly +
The echangelog tool is character-set agnostic. In order to properly enter UTF-8, developers would have to switch to a UTF-8 shell session. This only applies if the developer is entering new text which uses 'fancy' characters -- existing characters are not mangled.
Certain text editors are incapable of handling UTF-8 cleanly. However, -since the echangelog tool is generally the correct way to generate +since the echangelog tool is generally the correct way to generate ChangeLog entries, this should not be a major problem. Generating metadata.xml files correctly in these editors could become problematic. -The vim and emacs editors, which appear to be most widely used, +The vim and emacs editors, which appear to be most widely used, are both capable of handling UTF-8 cleanly -- for vim, this could be -configured automatically via the gentoo-syntax ([4]) package.
+configured automatically via the gentoo-syntax ([4]) package.| [1] | RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt |
| [2] | ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set) |
| [3] | ISO/IEC 8859 (8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets) |
| [4] | The app-vim/gentoo-syntax package,
@@ -175,16 +174,16 @@
CopyrightThis document has been placed in the public domain. --vim: set tw=74 fileencoding=utf-8 :- + |