Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:13:14PM +0000, Ben de Groot (yngwin) wrote: >> Index: metadata.xml >> =================================================================== > ... >> + <flag name='webkit'> >> + Enable <pkg>x11-libs/qt-webkit</pkg> support, for more >> + sophisticated online help display using webkit???s HTML renderer. >> + </flag> >> + </use> >> </pkgmetadata> > > I don't think there is any precedence here, but Unicode should not turn > up in the English useflag descriptions, at least not while we are still > generating use.local.desc for users. > > This one was really annoying, U+2019 "Right single quotation mark", > which renders identically to an apostrophe, at least on my fonts. > > It briefly broke the use.local.desc generation, because that had been > set for ASCII. > > Should we allow UTF-8 in the English variant? Are all the programs that > still read use.local.desc UTF-8 safe? Do we have a deprecation schedule > for use.local.desc being removed totally? > The xml header in each metadata.xml states that the content is UTF-8 encoded, and any XML parser has to be able to handle this. Also, when used literally in xml, the 5 special characters & ' " < > cause a well-formedness error, as far as I know. U+2019 is the recommended form of using the apostrophe. So in my opinion, if we want to use xml, we should use unicode properly.
Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison __________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.liveforge.org/ irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo-media irc://irc.oftc.net/#lxde __________________________________________________
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