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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:39:39 -0600
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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 !

It's already UTF-8.  This is a non-issue.