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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.



  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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