Subject: Re: Unicode text editor
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/16/2007 13:01:52
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On 15/11/2007, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW - some of your code (lib/librefuse for example) have non-ASCII
>> characters. I think it's against NetBSD code convention. :)
>
> There is one character (the "Copyright symbol") in the leading comment
> block, which could be considered to be "non-ASCII" i.e. not in the
> range 0 to 127.
>
> For the reason why I do that, please take a look at the wikipedia entry:
>
[...]
... then we need to state that the character encoding for that
file is ISO 8859-1. For those using UTF-8 that character is
garbled.
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