From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4410 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2009 08:50:30 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from new-brage.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.254.104) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jul 2009 08:50:30 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 89359 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2009 08:50:13 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Jul 2009 08:50:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 25974 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2009 08:50:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 27102 Received: (qmail 25933 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2009 08:50:01 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Jul 2009 08:50:01 -0000 Received: from cluster-d.mailcontrol.com (cluster-d.mailcontrol.com [85.115.60.190]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2635C80307FA for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:49:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cameurexb01.EUROPE.ROOT.PRI ([193.128.72.68]) by rly46d.srv.mailcontrol.com (MailControl) with ESMTP id n698mjLu003931 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:49:56 +0100 Received: from news01.csr.com ([10.99.50.25]) by cameurexb01.EUROPE.ROOT.PRI with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:49:41 +0100 Received: from news01.csr.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by news01.csr.com (8.14.2/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n698nfP6012199 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:49:41 +0100 Received: from csr.com (pws@localhost) by news01.csr.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id n698neXC012196 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:49:41 +0100 Message-Id: <200907090849.n698neXC012196@news01.csr.com> X-Authentication-Warning: news01.csr.com: pws owned process doing -bs To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: ChangeLog and UTF-8 In-reply-to: <20090709025114.GA58888@redoubt.spodhuis.org> References: <090707202021.ZM14948@torch.brasslantern.com> <200907080833.n688XsJd030133@news01.csr.com> <20090709025114.GA58888@redoubt.spodhuis.org> Comments: In-reply-to Phil Pennock message dated "Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:51:14 -0700." Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:49:40 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jul 2009 08:49:41.0294 (UTC) FILETIME=[32DA9CE0:01CA0072] X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-09-20-00 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.68.0.156 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9549/Wed Jul 8 20:14:06 2009 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2009-07-08 at 09:33 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > Bart Schaefer wrote: > > > For a while we were avoiding UTF-8 in the ChangeLog, but recently a few > > > multibyte characters have crept in. > > > > > > I don't have any strong opinion one way or the other, but there didn't > > > seem to be any statement of intent to change practice, so I inquire to > > > be sure it isn't by mistake. > > > > I think they're have actually been some for quite a while. I would be > > worried if it started containing other encodings as well. > > There's plenty of Latin1 in the older changelogs, in the form of "Zoltán > Hidvégi" expressed using Latin1. Interesting historical development; since those are closed I don't think that's an issue (if someone did want to run iconv I wouldn't stop them). Actually, I think there's an argument that having UTF-8 in the new file is a good thing: smart editors will spot what encoding to use, and anyone copying in a name will get the same encoding. Otherwise it could potentially start filling up with ISO-8859-1 or anything else. Keeping non-ASCII characters out of the source would be a smart idea, however. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070