Git conversion: fixing email addresses from ChangeLog files

[Eric S. Raymond]

Joseph Myers <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>:
> Concretely, what I'd suggest is: convert ISO-8859-1 entries in the 
> checked-in list to UTF-8, removing anything that thereby becomes a 
> duplicate or unnecessary; handle anything whose encoding isn't simply 
> ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 via a hardcoded entry in bugdb.py using hex escapes 
> like the existing such entries there.  Once the checked-in list is pure 
> UTF-8 it's easier for people to review and edit.  Where the issue is only 
> presence of ISO-8859 NBSP, or "" or () around the names, remove that in 
> the checked-in list and again remove duplicates.  That way the list can be 
> limited to non-encoding variations.

Be aware that repusurgeon has a "transcode" command for moving
a specified set of object to UTF-8 from a specified encoding.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>