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Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: eliz at gnu dot org
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org, ludo at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:22:53 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)
- References: <20090103061325.GB31571@adacore.com> <u63kwoh4f.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:48:00 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:13:25 +0400
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > Cc: ludo@gnu.org
> >
> > +coding: utf-8
> >
> > I tracked the change to a patch in Aug 2007, but couldn't find
> > the associated discussion in the gdb and gdb-patches mailing list.
> >
> > Is that change OK?
>
> Yes.
Well, I disagree. I think it was a mistake. UTF-8 support is not
universally available. I can see why Ludovic wants to have his name
spelled properly, but he should realize it'll look like "Ludovic
Court?\203?is" to many people. I think we should keep our source
files as 7-bit ASCII (with the possible exception of the files
maintained by the translation teams), Developers should use a
transliteration for their names, just like all deveopers from
countries in east-asia or the former (current?) Russian empire seem to
do.