On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:44:51 -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Mike Gerwitz mentions that it is intentional that the GCS etc should > be using UTF-8, not 7-bit ASCII. So it definitly should not use 7-bit > ASCII quotes in that setting.
It's possible that rms just forwarded Eli's patch because it fixed a problem, without considering whether a UTF-8 character should have been added in the first place. I don't know, and I don't want to speculate; I CC'd him. I'm not expressing a personal opinion one way or another with regards to whether we ought to have UTF-8 characters in maintain.texi; I'm merely stating _why_ it is this way. > Lets not make hasty random changes, specially when this one was very > explicit. Lets take the time to understand the problem first, and > then find a solution. -- Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05
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