On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:18:21 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tuesday 16 August 2005 07:03 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote: | > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: | > > logic: | > Question: | > - are CVS commit messages UTF8 safe? | | GLEP 31 came to mind when i was writing the e-mail but i forgot to | mention it ... maybe ciaran can hop in here
GLEP 31 is withdrawn until Gentoo gets some means of removing commit access from people who say "nyah nyah I don't feel like following the rules and so I'll just carry on breaking stuff as I see fit". As it stands I've been told by various people that they have no interest in ensuring that their commits are UTF-8 safe (even if there's an automated check that warns them when they're about to break something), and I don't consider it fair to force lots of repoman warnings upon other developers who *do* care about that kind of thing who just happen to be the next person to touch a package that got broken. *shrug* So, if you want to be nice and use UTF-8, please do so. CVS is fine with it. Chances are whoever writes the CVS -> changelog tool will get it wrong with text wrapping at least once, but it's easy enough to fix. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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