From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ivan Kanis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:22:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392664951 22202 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 19:22:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 20:22:40 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 1WFTm2-0001ue-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:22:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTm2-0007S9-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTlu-0007Rx-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTlo-0000TJ-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from kanis.fr ([46.19.35.252]:35519 helo=srv2.kanis.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTlo-0000RO-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:22:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kanis.fr; s=alpha; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=ZzE2LjjIEkR+tv268XnruZpWmiXhMS8oUDCD8ezJmZY=; b=X8AicxKDNo5+zNIvFXd2OXwdbQQ1DnURHdCh4jBaEZKVS4Ala6SynrVJi0O4w9hU5coTA/L3EN3l0N18DRYhFbM2/+KYzk4QFYUdJ1B0IwqaGEsVNu3jB1XKKm12dRK7; Original-Received: from smtp.comencini.fr ([164.138.25.8]) by smtp.comencini.fr with esmtpsa (TLS1.1:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WFTlg-0003zd-NN; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:22:17 +0100 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAB5QTFRF IBkXUxMTOCwoTC4qcUY8iFxQmmper31txpaJ/v/8aKZ1oAAAAcVJREFUOMt100tu2zAQAFDCXnUZ oAcIqG68LZULVLQBbwuSiffm6AIRRyeotAySJoVu2+FPpJWWC3/4NKOZocSW/yxWfnJ2+Bdwzhj7 8gleWVy7DXC2rkMNr2V/zRbghXIwthf3VbIA9Ffc71vZCSFyCEsBggtNS8ludwvfmhYA0Vn9o4DP zMWxR7+cPWzAYFzwM0ModtdmcDbDS6i/hT7L+RZof5yCXGrYe5jn2YO6BYMjgY+51tCIAqHgBLwR pwLnGuRjAKyBJkuN4yd4U92uCY1vUr2D/c5b8DuxyQwfOHUeaLqDJhnkkuGXbB56h2C1IVBdgncc bBi6feroa9B6jUDojnQPQKupbyXyeeCE1oT7Oqrt+SnfY3mkiyGA/3AmD3H5g32CcBx6hY8pRkwJ 9PpcjRGobUfprFnhAa1vepwcgMOhwG+pdSgKHFU9HAvoAH6XUl7lDUCCq5Qb6GMbVm3Aj++qDYCt wdBc/YHgOFCmS3mjDMRcSE2qY4E3Q3PVIQRQmeodNH4QEbRUFZzW+VotzwX4yTcRTySOML1qjcE5 hTirVqDHkMAP0PjAywp3d18JZtqzvr9zDYD+GaSKtE6Zlr/DLPNFmOcvBAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Hashcash: 1:20:140217:esr@thyrsus.com::x0Wy89K9bD29zGoC:005K7G X-Hashcash: 1:20:140217:emacs-devel@gnu.org::rTW7YTASsikanuws:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000007drg In-Reply-To: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:29:37 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.19.35.252 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:169711 Archived-At: February, 17 at 10:29 Eric S. Raymond wrote: > 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. Transcode to UTF-8 would be best I think. -- A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world. -- Tony Benn