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W. Trevor King 0f9ec22bd4 glossary: Specify UTF-8 for all our JSON
I wish there was a cleaner reference for what UTF-8 was.  But [1]
seems too glib, and I can't find a more targetted link than just
dropping folks into a Unicode chapter (which is what [1] does):

  The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0, §3.9 D92, §3.10 D95 (2011)

With the current v8.0 (2015-06-17), it's still §3.9 D92 and §3.10 D95.

I'd rather put this normative requirement in the configuration-spec
files, but maintainer consensus was to put it in the glossary [2,3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
[2]: https://github.com/opencontainers/specs/pull/146#issuecomment-138970417
[3]: https://github.com/opencontainers/specs/pull/146#issuecomment-143348788

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
2015-12-23 09:27:30 -08:00
W. Trevor King 18734986bc glossary: Provide a quick overview of important terms
And link them to the more detailed specification.

Subsection titles for the entries will be obnoxiously spacious, but
the other alternatives seem worse:

a. An HTML definition list (<dl>) would have nice default styling, but
   it's annoying to write raw HTML.  And we would have needed
   something like:

     <dt name="bundle">Bundle</dt>
     <dd>

     A [directory structure](bundle.md) that is...

     </dd>

   to get Markdown-style links in the defintion itself.

b. A Markdown list (* ...) would have reasonable default styling, but
   there's no Markdown syntax for adding anchors to the entries.  And
   a glossary is much less useful if you can't link to a specific
   entry.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
2015-12-23 09:27:30 -08:00