Re: [aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:34:44 -0400 Ray Kohler wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD

The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

Thanks, this works, but: it was set to utf-8, so this makes me believe that there's still something wrong somewhere.

The galan-git PKGBUILD looked fine to me without changing anything, but my dvdwizard one only looked right after setting "Auto Detect -> Universal". Weird.

On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/ What did I do wrong there? The patch was created using: diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch