[aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200
Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> > 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 Ü.