On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 05:14:51 -0500, Therese Godefroy via RT wrote: > On Mon Feb 25 11:25:23 2019, [email protected] wrote: >> I have noticed that maintain.txt and maintain.info[1] are no longer in >> ASCII, but in UTF-8. In particular they contain lots of easily avoidable >> UTF-8 quoting characters (single and double quotes) that break >> displaying them in non-UTF-8 terminals. This is a pity because the main >> use of such simple formats is to be displayed in simple terminals. >> >> Given that there is just one letter out of the ASCII range in >> maintain.{txt,info} (the 'é' in 'risqué'), could it be possible to keep >> these files as pure ASCII? Thanks.
For the record: maintain.texi was explicitly patched to specify UTF-8 as the encoding (after the introduction of UTF-8 chars): https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/gnustandards/maintain.texi?revision=1.269&view=markup -- Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 https://mikegerwitz.com
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