New package: icmpdn

Florian La Roche laroche at redhat.com
Wed Jul 6 15:15:37 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:30:06PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> On Mar 28 juin 2005 16:22, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> =
> >> * Strange characters show up in %description: – (after icmpdnd,
> >> idnlookup, libnss_icmp.so.2) in firefox; In vim: â~@~S
> >
> > Hm. It seems that Oron Peled copied my homepage directly into the README
> > and specfile when he created them, so those are probably en-dashes in
> > UTF-8. I never noticed, since all my systems handle UTF-8 correctly.
> >
> > I might as well fix it (dashes and en-dashes look the same in terminal
> > fonts anyway), but is there anything wrong with using UTF-8 in
> > specfiles?
> 
> As long as it's valid UTF-8 just do everyone a favour and keep the UTF-8
> characters. RHL/FC has decided long ago to force UTF-8 adoption because
> waiting for everyone not affected by ASCII problems to make the jump was
> irrealistic.
> 
> And yes it will break some utilities. We want them to break so they are
> fixed someday. And you do need full UTF-8 in specs at least for people
> names, because it's plain rude to force humans to mangle their names just
> to accomodate the laziness of people who happen not to use more than 128
> characters in their everyday life.

Nearly all packages in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras now have valid
utf-8 content for the description and the changelog data.

greetings,

Florian La Roche




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