On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:48 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > This will be fine > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_characters > may work too (although the text before the table may be confusing) > > > We could define it as a negative "(ASCII does not include accented > > letters or special symbols like ©)". > > Been there, tried that, anything but a chart or an image like the one you > proposed is not a sufficient cluestick Guys, just "man ascii", is all you need, simple and available on all systems. with a table, concise text and no we references that can change. >From the man page: ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit code. Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. We could also say something like: The following characters are ok for use in any file name: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ But the fisrt form is the easiest one, reading a man page is pretty straight forward. > > Basically, I think a good portion of anglo-centric packagers won't know > > what the relationship is between ASCII and UTF-8. > > Sure. But a good portion of anglo-centric packagers won't know what ASCII > is either. Try to poll people someday you'll be surprised. > > Regards, > -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
