[Slackbuilds-users] Bad character in snappy.info

[Fernando Lopez]

+1 on UTF-8

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:44 AM Arnaud via SlackBuilds-users <
slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

> > If we use UTF-8 for names in Spanish, where does it end?
> >
> > I cannot easily recognize UTF-8 names in Chinese or Thai or Russian or
> > Japanese.
> >
> > My keyboard does not easily support such languages.
> >
> > If we allow UTF-8 names in SlackBuild scripts then how about UTF-8 in
> > documentation and descriptions?
> >
> > Where does it end?
> >
> > I would hope that we keep the English language as a standard for
> > software that I can, read and write and that matches my keyboard.
> >
> > Richard Narron
>
>
>         Well,mostly, you do not need to write people's names, and you could
> always easily cut and paste them.
> So it could stop at them names.
>
>         To be noted that UTF-8 email addresses are valid, per the
> standard, so
> we can't really forbid UTF-8 in EMAIL field, so .info files should be UTF-8
> valid, hence MAINTAINER field could also have UTF-8.
>
>         That being said, as a rule, everything should always work with
> UTF-8.
>
>  - Yth.
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Regards,
    Fernando Lopez Jr.
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