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Re: coding system in ChangeLog text
- From: Peter O'Gorman <peter at pogma dot com>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:53:50 +0900
- Subject: Re: coding system in ChangeLog text
- References: <200601170113.k0H1DJ92027629@greed.delorie.com>
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DJ Delorie wrote:
| What coding system are we following in ChangeLogs? We're starting to
| collect various 8-bit characters in people's names (which is a good
| sign, I suppose) but Emacs complained that it couldn't figure out the
| encoding this last time around. A quick egrep shows a mix of
| obviously iso-latin-1 characters and things that look like wide
| characters.
|
| For example, just today:
|
| Rafael \201<A-tilde>\201vila de Esp\201<A-tilde>\201ndola
<rafael.espindola@gmail.com>
|
| And compare:
|
| 1998: Martin von L<A-tilde><paragraph>wis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
| 2000: Martin v. L<o-umlaut>wis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
|
See this thread:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2005-03/msg00002.html>
Or for the summary, Latin-1 should be used.
Peter
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