[Rpm-metadata] updates

[Mark Hatle]

Even if they are utf-8 symbols, wouldn't it be better to use the ® 
and ™ like in HTML?  This seems to be far more portable.

--Mark

Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:40, Daniel Veillard wrote: 
> 
>>  Hum, seems that libxml2 error message got inserted at the beginning
>>of the XML result:
> 
> 
> Yeah, even removing that, though, I get this:
> 
> [joe at bacon joe]$ xmllint fedora-core-test2-metadata.xml
> fedora-core-test2-metadata.xml:10061: error: Input is not proper UTF-8,
> indicate encoding !
> 
> And it shows the registered mark and trademark lines (for some reason
> Evo won't paste them).
> 
> Anyway, they're the Latin-1 trademark symbols, not the UTF-8 ones. 
> (ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, but Latin 1 isn't)
> 
> In python (>= 2.1 anyway) you can encode string as UTF-8 by doing:
> 
> string = "blah blah ®" (some latin 1 encoded string)
> utf8_string = string.encode('utf-8')
> 
> and then write that out to the disk.
> 
> Joe
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