[121204] trunk/dports

[David Strubbe]

Hi Ryan,

I agree that it "should" not be a problem, but it actually crashed both
'port search' and 'svn diff' commands for me which seemed like a pretty
significant problem. Also that character renders in various different ways
(for cat, emacs, etc.), mostly erroneous, so it fails in the goal of
communication if you get à or ? instead of the desired character.

David


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:51 PM, dstrubbe at macports.org wrote:
>
> > czmq, crossroads, py-zmq: changed references to 0MQ that used the O with
> slash special character. This was displayed as à in commands such as 'port
> search' and indeed crashed the command so that no further output would be
> shown after it (at least on my machines). Same happened for 'svn diff' even
> for this commit. By contrast, in other places this library is referred to
> as 0MQ or ZeroMQ, which does not cause such problems.
>
> Use of non-ASCII characters in portfiles should not be a problem.
> Portfiles are defined as being UTF-8 files and they display fine for me as
> such in the terminal. Many other ports use UTF-8 characters, such as smart
> quotes, and I don't think we should attempt to go back to using ASCII only
> because it's just so limiting.
>
>
>
>
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