[PATCH] Use UTF-8 in ChangeLog entries

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

2008/9/4 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
>> What we have in our ChangeLog entries is complete mess though, most
>> is valid ASCII (and therefore UTF-8), then there are ISO-8859-1 entries,
>> UTF-8 entries, but a lot of entries contain complete garbage as probably
>> some editors do really weird things.  Some people's names that use
>> accents have 7 or 8 different encodings of their names.
>> The following script converts everything to UTF-8.  Ok for trunk?

So can I properly spell my name as long as I use UTF-8? That would be great!

> OK.  I suspect you'll need to watch out for future commits that break the
> encodings of past log entries again.

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/verify-po.py

Would we be interested in something similar?

Cheers,

Manuel.