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Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?
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Ivan Kanis |
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Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? |
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Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:22:13 +0100 |
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February, 17 at 10:29 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 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.
Transcode to UTF-8 would be best I think.
--
A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill
for: there is all the difference in the world.
-- Tony Benn
Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?,
Ivan Kanis <=
Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?, David Kastrup, 2014/02/18