From esr at thyrsus.com Fri Nov 7 16:21:43 2003 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0478888802886621703==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: RPM submission script Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:27:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20031107212714.GA16837@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 20031107210539.05BD516FC3@jmason.org --===============0478888802886621703== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Justin Mason : > er, UTF-8 *is* multibyte ;) Well, technically, yes...but not the way people usually mean it (16-bit chars like Java). = > However, using UTF-8 should be OK, alright, since UTF-8 multibyte > sequences must contain bit 7 set in all chars, so "\n" and ":" will not > show up as bytes. viz: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8 > notes 'no ASCII byte (0x00-0x7F) can appear as part of any other > character.' Exactly. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============0478888802886621703==--