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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: ASCII-only startup message? |
Date: | Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:45:23 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
That text is a comment we insert into *scratch*; it's not a doc string.
Sure, but the same considerations apply to it that would apply to any text in commentary and documentation. The text should use good English style.
We shouldn't produce non-ASCII characters in comments, it's a user prerogative.
This is Emacs's comment, one that Emacs creates and inserts, so user prerogative does not apply here.
The adverse effect of inserting non-ASCII characters shows when your locale's codeset is not UTF-8: if you want to save that buffer or any part of it that includes this comment, you get annoyed by the request to specify a suitable encoding (because*scratch* correctly starts with the locale's default encoding).
This sort of thing is far more likely to happen with *Help* and *Info* buffers than with the *scratch* buffer. If it is a problem, it needs to be fixed in general, so that any far-more-likely scenario is fixed. Changing the startup string is likely to paper over any real problem, and so is counterproductive.
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