From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha7x8yvw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha7xk81g.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com>
> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:39:39 -0600
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> >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.
>
> +1 to UTF-8 !
It's already UTF-8. This is a non-issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-17 15:29 Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-17 15:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-17 16:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-17 17:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-17 17:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-17 16:39 ` Karl Fogel
2014-02-17 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-02-17 17:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-17 17:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-17 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-17 19:22 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-02-17 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-02-17 22:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-18 0:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-18 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-18 16:30 ` Karl Fogel
2014-02-18 6:40 ` David Kastrup
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