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Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:29:37 -0500 (EST) |
While continuing to try to identify correct deletion points for attic
files, I have run across a minor problem: Latin-1 characters in
Changelog files. I have seen two, c-cedilla and something I can't
identify that renders as a backtick. There may be more. I can fix
them up.
I request a policy decision about what encoding the repository
content should use. I see three reasonable choices:
* Leave Latin-1 in place.
* Transcode to UTF-8. (I favor this as the best long-term solution.)
* Transcode to ASCII approximations - easy in the two cases I've
found so far.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?, Ivan Kanis, 2014/02/17