[Slackbuilds-users] Bad character in snappy.info

[Matteo Bernardini]

I save it as utf-8 encoded and pushed it into my branch: thanks for
the report and discussion!

https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/?id=a71a0965

Matteo

Il giorno mer 9 giu 2021 alle ore 15:46 Erich Ritz via
SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> ha scritto:
>
> On Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 at 5:55 AM, Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Which leads to a request. In http://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/ it is
> > written:
> >
> > "It's recommended to use plain ASCII for all files that are being
> > submitted to
> > SBo"
> >
> > However, most languages use characters outside of the ASCII set. Why not
> > allow
> > an UTF-8 encoding, in which all maintainers names can be properly written?
> >
> > Didier
> >
>
> With Slackware 15.0 switching to a UTF-8 locale by default:
>
> Tue Jul 12 03:48:34 UTC 2016
> a/etc-14.2-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
>        In /etc/profile.d/lang.{csh,sh}.new, make en_US.UTF-8 the default locale.
>
> I agree I would like to see all files as being encoded in UTF-8.  However, in the case of snappy.info it needs to be converted:
>
> $ file snappy.info
> snappy.info: ISO-8859 text
>
> I think this is why python is choking on it.  Indeed, the webview also can't correctly show the file:
> https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/tree/development/snappy/snappy.info?h=14.2
> But using vim locally vim correctly detects the file encoding and displays properly.
>
> Erich
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