From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901031022.n03AMq5c027637@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u63kwoh4f.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:48:00 +0200)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-03 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-03 6:14 Joel Brobecker
2009-01-03 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 10:23 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2009-01-03 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 23:56 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-06 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-06 21:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-06 21:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-06 22:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-07 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-07 10:06 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-01-07 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-03 12:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
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