From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/url/ChangeLog Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:19:00 -0400 Message-ID: <87vf4j5tlj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <87mzpv7brn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118600412 32116 80.91.229.2 (12 Jun 2005 18:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 20:20:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhX3t-00084a-Rv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:19:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhX8W-00032I-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhX88-0002yu-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DhX81-0002uj-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhX80-0002sb-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DhX3r-0004JL-O6; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.48.82.205]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050612181900.PXJS26128.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3C73D73E6; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:19:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:10:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38658 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38658 >> > All the ChangeLog files in Emacs use the iso-2022-7bit encoding, but >> > lisp/url/ChangeLog uses utf-8. Is that intentional? >> >> Does it cause any problem? > I don't know. It just seemed unusual. >> Stefan "who thinks we should eventually switch all files to utf-8" > But not just yet. We've been through that, and decided to use > iso-2022. Yes, for some files it causes trouble (mostly the ones where unify-8859-on-decoding also poses problems). But for a ChangeLog file, I don't know of any pending problem. We can of course switch to iso-2022 if we ever bump into a problem with utf-8 on url/ChangeLog, but I think that as long as utf-8 works, we should stick to it, especially since the probability of a problem gets smaller over time as our Unicode support gets better. Stefan