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 18:52:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83ha7x8yvw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87ha7xk81g.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392655975 11876 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 16:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 17:53:02 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 1WFRRE-00062b-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:53:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRRE-0002U7-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRR6-0002Mt-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRR1-0007kE-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:52:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFRR1-0007k1-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1500000FZPOB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:52:46 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N15000N8G7XER90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:52:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ha7xk81g.fsf@ktab.red-bean.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:169702 Archived-At: > From: Karl Fogel > 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.