On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 21:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
We expect you to convert this syntax to correct plain text in UTF-8 encoding before publication by Fedora. This is the common ground all our package manipulating tools understand and there is no way we're going to teach them some other markup just because you can't find some UTF-8 symbol in your layout.
If you can't write UTF-8 bullets, and can't be bothered to launch something like gucharmap, use a sed of awk or whatever converter on your spec files before pushing them Fedora-side, don't ask others to add code to many tools to workaround your problems.
So how does using untypable unicode bullets magically tell PackageKit that this is part of a list ? And which of the many bullet-like characters in Unicode do you want to bless for this ?
If you ask me, something very simple like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown is best for situations like this where you want to include light markup into text without letting the markup totally overwhelm the surrounding document.