Re: UTF-8 text files

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Didn't add a thank you note to the last ChangeLog entry yet --
> are the Libtool developers alright with UTF-8 encoded ChangeLog*,
> THANKS, (maybe eventually AUTHORS) files?

Text files don't support a standard way to specify their encoding. 
Now if these files were expressed in XML, then there *would* be a 
standard way to specify their encoding.

This seems like an issue to push up to RMS and crew since use of UTF-8 
or any other encoding should be specified in the GNU coding standards. 
It does not seem right that contributors whos names are not adequately 
expressable via plain old ASCII do not obtain the same benefit as 
others.  On the other hand, if text files are expected to be ASCII by 
default, then the rest of the world will not see their names 
appropriately.

> Any emacs-foo I'd need to add at the top or bottom?

Is emacs now required in order to maintain libtool?

> Are CVS/arch/whatever fine with the change?

They should not care.

Bob
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