[PATCH] Don't use shell quoting characters in release name.

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 17:16:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> While this doesn't solve unicode-releated problems with /etc/os-release
> or /etc/fedora-release, for example, it does mean that we won't have
> problems with parsing this through shell scripts, which we do quite
> often.
>
> This uses /Punctuation apostrophe/, U+2019, which is the preferred
> unicode character for a displayed apostrophe, as opposed to /typewriter
> apostrophe/, U=0027, which is also the shell quote character.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>

I applied this to the fedora-release package and pushed the fix out.

josh


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