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Request 1029580 accepted

- Avoid use of ®/™ signs in specfiles as per
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_description_guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description
(section created by user hennevogel(SUSE) on 2010-05-07)

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Martin Pluskal's avatar

Would you mind providing link to said guidelines?


Martin Pluskal's avatar

Ah I seee "Use ASCII characters unless necessary (if so, save as UTF-8)" - well "Intel®" is used by Intel and I believe it to be the correct way of referring to trademarked brand of CPU's


Jan Engelhardt's avatar
author target maintainer

UTF-8 is ok. What I refer to is the legal aspect:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_description_guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description “Never use "(TM)" or "(R)" (or the Unicode equivalents, ™/®). It is incredibly complicated to use these properly, so it is actually safer for us to not use them at all.”


Martin Pluskal's avatar

Lets discuss this on proper mailing list first


Martin Pluskal's avatar

Quoting rules that you seem to have created yourself ....


Jan Engelhardt's avatar
author target maintainer

Please get the facts. The (determinable) author is/was

11:42, 7 May 2010‎ @hennevogel (talk | contribs)‎ . . (25,244 bytes) (+25,244)

https://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=openSUSE:Specfile_guidelines&offset=&limit=500&action=history

That's almost as far back as openSUSE itself goes.

Request History
Jan Engelhardt's avatar

jengelh created request

- Avoid use of ®/™ signs in specfiles as per
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_description_guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description
(section created by user hennevogel(SUSE) on 2010-05-07)


Martin Pluskal's avatar

pluskalm accepted request

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