Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

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In article <87abklyh19.fsf@gmx.de>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> It seems that non-Ascii characters have been messed up in ChangeLog
> files for a while.  For instance, the latest entry in lisp/ChangeLog in
> EMACS_22_BASE looks like this:

> ,----
> | 2008-03-25  Johan Bockg^[$(Q)[^[(Brd  <bojohan@gnu.org>
> | 
> | 	* info.el (Info-isearch-search): Always return point.
> | 
> `----

I've just fixed that line for EMACS_22_BASE.

> The trunk show similar garbage for Jan Dj^[$(D+#^[(Brv's changes in several files,
> apparently starting after the merge of the unicode-2 branch.

I see no garbage for Jan's names in the ChangeLog files of
the trunk.

By the way, ChangeLog files use iso-2022-7bit that uses
ESC-sequence for encoding legacy charsets, and to which
legacy charset to map characters depends on the priorities
of charsets (and thus depends on one's locale).  Perhaps we
should now use utf-8 for ChangeLog files to keep constant
encoding result.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp