From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:47:05 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <53028359.2000000@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392673640 25658 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 21:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 22:47:27 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 1WFW2A-0002ir-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:47:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFW2A-0001bH-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44725) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFW1z-0001b6-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFW1r-0002VQ-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:38964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFW1r-0002V5-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ED939E8017; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:47:06 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Q+zGlQxRStkM; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:47:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4880739E8011; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:47:06 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:169717 Archived-At: The closest thing we have to an encoding policy is given in the "Source=20 file encoding" section of admin/notes/unicode. The history is that there's been fitful recoding to UTF-8 over the=20 years. About the time I wrote "Source file encoding" (March 2013), I=20 recoded several files. Juanma recoded a bunch of ChangeLogs in March=20 2008 -- these are the most-relevant to the issue of what should appear=20 in the repository. I assume there are other recodings as well; I=20 haven't kept track. While we're on the topic of normalization, is it the intent to normalize=20 spelling of author and committer names in the repository? E.g., replace=20 "Fran=C3=A7ois_Pinard" with "Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard" (no underscore)? Or r= eplace=20 "Richard M. Stallman" and "Richard M Stallman" with "Richard Stallman"?=20 How about email addresses? Perhaps you've already addressed this=20 point but if so I'm afraid I forgot what you wrote.