Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 21:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> We expect you to convert this syntax to correct plain text in UTF-8 >> encoding before publication by Fedora. This is the common ground all our >> package manipulating tools understand and there is no way we're going to >> teach them some other markup just because you can't find some UTF-8 >> symbol in your layout. >> >> If you can't write UTF-8 bullets, and can't be bothered to launch >> something like gucharmap, use a sed of awk or whatever converter on your >> spec files before pushing them Fedora-side, don't ask others to add code >> to many tools to workaround your problems. > > So how does using untypable unicode bullets magically tell PackageKit > that this is part of a list ? And which of the many bullet-like > characters in Unicode do you want to bless for this ? Well, U+2022 BULLET is the clear winner. behdad > If you ask me, something very simple like > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown is best for situations like this > where you want to include light markup into text without letting the > markup totally overwhelm the surrounding document. > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
