Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Patch Logs vs. character sets

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    Tom> There is a standard solution in this kind of situation: from
    Tom> the ascii+non-specific point of view there should be some
    Tom> data that says how the "non-specific" data is encoded.  In
    Tom> this case, that means adding an encoding header to log
    Tom> messages, picking a namespace for encodings, making
    Tom> iso-8859-1 the retroactive default, and that's that.

Helping to maintain such solutions has been my life in open source.

    Tom> The funny thing about that solution

Hey, as you describe it, it works for me.  I argued the point because
IMO it's _not_ going to work _reliably_ for exactly the people who
need it most.  Good luck to them; I hope you're right.

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