Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository?

[Karl Fogel]

address@hidden (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>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.

+1 to UTF-8 !