Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Re: heads-up: DESCR limitation

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 07:29:32PM -0800, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I just wanted to be clear on something. Basically almost everything I do
> is in UTF-8 encoding.
> Is it OK to submit in UTF-8 encoding or should I use C locale?
> No problem for me to skip accents or such either way.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Bennett

It's just the DESCR that needs to be sanitized. And pkg_create will now tell
you.

Obviously, ports contents themselves will do utf-8 most of the time.

It's a completely different story.

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