21382 2003-05-20 20:58 0000 Non-ASCII characters in ebuild description 2003-08-23 16:31:26 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Applications unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 minor --- 1 e97_far@e.kth.se lanius@gentoo.org ska-fan@gentoo.org e97_far@e.kth.se 2003-05-20 20:58:41 0000 Scribus ebuilds have "registered trademark" symbols (" e97_far@e.kth.se 2003-05-20 20:58:41 0000 Scribus ebuilds have "registered trademark" symbols ("®") in the DESCRIPTION field. This symbol is not ASCII. Perhaps portage allows iso-8859-1 chars, but it will probably cause a problem somewhere. ska-fan@gentoo.org 2003-05-22 16:20:21 0000 It's probably not about portage allowing it or not, because at the time you write the package description you don't know what charset the user will have set - only ascii characters should be used, because that is the common denominator of all charsets. public@mland.dhs.org 2003-08-02 09:04:34 0000 Would something like this be appropriate? diff -Naur original/scribus-0.8.ebuild new/scribus-0.8.ebuild --- original/scribus-0.8.ebuild 2003-08-02 11:47:48.000000000 -0400 +++ new/scribus-0.8.ebuild 2003-08-02 11:48:07.000000000 -0400 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-office/scribus/scribus-0.8.ebuild,v 1.7 2003/03/01 01:16:08 vapier Exp $ -DESCRIPTION="Layout program similar to Adobe? PageMaker, QuarkXPress, or Adobe? InDesign" +DESCRIPTION="Layout program similar to Adobe(R) PageMaker, QuarkXPress, or Adobe(R) InDesign" HOMEPAGE="http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/" SRC_URI="http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/${P}.tar.gz" diff -Naur original/scribus-1.0_rc1.ebuild new/scribus-1.0_rc1.ebuild --- original/scribus-1.0_rc1.ebuild 2003-08-02 11:47:03.000000000 -0400 +++ new/scribus-1.0_rc1.ebuild 2003-08-02 11:14:50.000000000 -0400 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ MY_PV="1.0RC1" MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}" -DESCRIPTION="Layout program similar to Adobe? PageMaker, QuarkXPress, or Adobe? InDesign" +DESCRIPTION="Layout program similar to Adobe(R) PageMaker, QuarkXPress, or Adobe(R) InDesign" HOMEPAGE="http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/" SRC_URI="http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/${MY_P}.tar.gz" SLOT="0" vapier@gentoo.org 2003-08-02 13:11:49 0000 that would be perfect ;) lanius@gentoo.org 2003-08-23 16:18:30 0000 so why don't you fix it ;) i'll do it when cvs is up again... lanius@gentoo.org 2003-08-23 16:31:26 0000 fixed now :)