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Re: UTF-8 cleanliness



On 09/17, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:30:03 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > You are talking about filenames, I am pretty sure the original question was
> > about what is in the files.
> > 
> > For pkgsrc filenames I agree - ascii should be enough. For content, I don't
> > see why we would support anything but UTF8 (and that only in certain fields,
> > so the original question IMHO was a very interesting one).
> 
> I find the vast majority of gremlins in files are on the level of 
> special dashes or quotes.

And spaces.

Lewis


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