On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:20:07PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
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 ?
You have confused character encoding and semantic markup.
Unicode is character encoding
HTML tags or similar are semantic markup
Trying to extrapolate semantic markup from random ascii symbols is not
a reliable or robust path, particularly when you come to internationalise
things.
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.
Possibly, however package data in rpm headers is not wiki markdown and the
specification for RPM doesn't imply you can treat it that way.