Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-07 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus, unless you're using "high characters" not defined in US-ASCII, all > of the following three statements are true: > > 1) It is a valid US-ASCII file > 2) It is a valid ISO-8859-1 file More generally, it's valid (and will appear identical) in any of th

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus, unless you're using "high characters" not defined in US-ASCII, all > of the following three statements are true: > > 1) It is a valid US-ASCII file > 2) It is a valid ISO-8859-1 file More generally, it's valid (and will appear identical) in any of th

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. Note that "file" doesn't look at the whole file, so it may miss non-ASCII characters if they're not at the begi

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joel Baker said: > US-ASCII only defines characters from 0x00 through 0x7F (0 - 127); it is a > formal subset of both ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and UTF-8. Or, more precisely, > both Latin-1 and UTF-8 are proper supersets of US-ASCII, largely to prevent > being gratuitously b

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. I tried > `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o chang

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. Note that "file" doesn't look at the whole file, so it may miss non-ASCII characters if they're not at the begi

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joel Baker said: > US-ASCII only defines characters from 0x00 through 0x7F (0 - 127); it is a > formal subset of both ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and UTF-8. Or, more precisely, > both Latin-1 and UTF-8 are proper supersets of US-ASCII, largely to prevent > being gratuitously b

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Joel Baker
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. I tried > `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o chang

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. I tried > `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but t

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Hommey said: > On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: > [snip] > > As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around > > utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I > > only use ASCII characters, it should

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] > As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around > utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I > only use ASCII characters, it should be fine. You are perfectly right. -- "I have sampled

UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. I tried > `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but t

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Hommey said: > On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: > [snip] > > As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around > > utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I > > only use ASCII characters, it should

Re: UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:15, Stephen Gran wrote: [snip] > As you can probably tell, I am not that familiar with the issues around > utf-8, but my impression was that it is a superset of ASCII, so if I > only use ASCII characters, it should be fine. You are perfectly right. -- "I have sampled

UTF-8 and changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` returns 'ASCII text'. I tried `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and