[aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200
Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 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.