From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:29:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392651031 15891 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 15:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 16:30:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQ9L-0005Rq-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQ9K-0005gq-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:30:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQ97-0005UI-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQ92-0003hM-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:36667 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFQ92-0003h2-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8D831380525; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:29:37 -0500 (EST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169694 Archived-At: While continuing to try to identify correct deletion points for attic files, I have run across a minor problem: Latin-1 characters in Changelog files. I have seen two, c-cedilla and something I can't identify that renders as a backtick. There may be more. I can fix them up. I request a policy decision about what encoding the repository content should use. I see three reasonable choices: * Leave Latin-1 in place. * Transcode to UTF-8. (I favor this as the best long-term solution.) * Transcode to ASCII approximations - easy in the two cases I've found so far. -- Eric S. Raymond Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln