From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:24:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83fvnh8xeq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87ha7xk81g.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <83ha7x8yvw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140217170128.GA11343@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392657889 3843 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 17:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 18:24:57 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 1WFRw8-0000QK-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:24:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRw8-0000eK-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRvx-0000ON-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRvs-0005Np-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRvs-0005NB-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1500000HICZL00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:24:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N15000D5HP3J9B0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:24:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140217170128.GA11343@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:169708 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:01:28 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Eli Zaretskii : > > It's already UTF-8. This is a non-issue. >=20 > Do you mean the policy is already to use UTF-8? Or that you believ= e there > are no non-UTF-8 characters in the Changelogs? Both. Each ChangeLog file has this file-local variable at the end: ;; Local Variables: ;; coding: utf-8 ;; End: > Python doesn't think the latter is true when I try to interpret str= ing > initializers mined from the Changelogs. Then something is probably wrong with the mining process, because I look in the file ChangeLog.9 and see a 2-byte UTF-8 sequence \303\247 there for the Latin-1 character =C3=A7 in "Fran=C3=A7ois_Pinard".