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Latin-1 in ChangeLogs was: Re: [gfortran, PR 18540] A few statement label cleanups
Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Can I suggest UTF-8 without a BOM (I think UTF-8 does not require a BOM
> but I could be wrong)?
>
> This seems like the best opportunity to head into the 21st century for at
> least the ChangeLog.
That's not up to us to decide, and RMS said latin1. See the thread I linked to.
The following is thus irrelevant, but let me nonetheless point out that
non-latin1 letters make it impossible to type names on an arbitrary keyboard,
whereas in the case of latin1 you simply drop the diacritical symbols if you
don't find the letter on your keyboard (ü->u, ç->c etc.), making the latter
much easier to handle for everybody. (Of course, the same argument would also
rule out the German letter 'ß', let's just hope that it doesn't appear in
anybody's name.)
- Tobi