On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:50:05PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
2009/10/22 markus schnalke <mei...@marmaro.de>:
Dwm, surf, and probably more suckless projects contain the copyright
symbol as UTF-8 character. In most cases, if not always, it is the only
non-ASCII character in those files.
I suggest to replace it with ``Copyright'' or ``Copyright (c)''.
(``(c)'' alone is not enough from the lawyer POV, AFAIK.)
Although most modern software can deal with UTF-8 chars, why use them
when not necessary? In this case, we'll not lose anything but may avoid
problems.
What speaks against?
Nothing, but the copyright character will stay, it is less verbose and
the official character for copyright notices.
I'm not concerned that in some exotic setups this character hasn't got
a glyph in the font or isn't part of 7bit ASCII.
Well, that was decisive and clear. But don't try to spoil our
flame war.
--
Kris Maglione
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
--Donald Knuth
