From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
Cc: 13936@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:54:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83boaojncy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513F9B3F.8010607@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:16:47 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> Attached is a proposed patch to change the encoding to UTF-8 for most Emacs
> source files that contain non-ASCII characters. This shouldn't affect
> the Emacs build or maintenance procedures, as Emacs itself can use
> either UTF-8 or non-UTF-8 encodings. Switching to UTF-8 does make it
> easier to use non-Emacs tools, such as 'grep -r'.
>
> This patch is a followon to Bug#13880 but is a bit more ambitious as
> it affects more files. Like the patch in Bug#13880, the patch is a
> bit tricky to view, since it contains mixed encodings.
>
> A few files remain in non-UTF-8 encodings, for technical reasons; see
> admin/notes/unicode. Perhaps some of these can be converted to UTF-8
> some day, but they'll need more work.
I'm not sure converting etc/HELLO is a good idea. Perhaps Handa-san
could chime in and comment on that matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-12 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 21:16 bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files Paul Eggert
2013-03-12 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-12 22:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-13 0:01 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-14 3:48 ` handa
2013-03-18 7:22 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-18 9:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-18 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-18 20:40 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-20 8:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-03-20 16:43 ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-20 16:48 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-02 1:20 ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-03 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-03 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04 0:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 15:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-04-05 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-18 20:44 ` Paul Eggert
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