[aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?

[Ray Kohler]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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.
>

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