lisp/url/ChangeLog

lisp/url/ChangeLog

[Eli Zaretskii]

All the ChangeLog files in Emacs use the iso-2022-7bit encoding, but
lisp/url/ChangeLog uses utf-8.  Is that intentional?

Re: lisp/url/ChangeLog

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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?


        Stefan "who thinks we should eventually switch all files to utf-8"

Re: lisp/url/ChangeLog

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:59:07 -0400
> 
> > 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.

Re: lisp/url/ChangeLog

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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