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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)
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> 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.