[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > I agree that restricting to ASCII only is a short-term option. The > issue that started this thread is related to non-ASCII characters in a > patch that modifies > > sage/graphs/graph.py > > Because of that patch, it has caused the reference manu

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Gonzalo, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >> >> On 2009-Aug-04 15:49:40 +0100, David Kirkby wrote: >>>I don't claim to know the most appropiate letter - it was just what it >>>looked like when I see it. But I would agree non-

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-05 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, wrote: > > On 2009-Aug-04 15:49:40 +0100, David Kirkby wrote: >>I don't claim to know the most appropiate letter - it was just what it >>looked like when I see it. But I would agree non-ASCII characters >>should be removed - it causes many issues. > > I would see

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-05 Thread peterjeremy
On 2009-Aug-04 15:49:40 +0100, David Kirkby wrote: >I don't claim to know the most appropiate letter - it was just what it >looked like when I see it. But I would agree non-ASCII characters >should be removed - it causes many issues. I would see restricting Sage to ASCII-only as fairly limiting

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread David Kirkby
2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen : > > Hi Carlo, > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Carlo > Hamalainen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >>> Have a look at this patch viewed in a browser: >>> >>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/6674/trac_6674-use-ascii.patc

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Carlo, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Carlo Hamalainen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Have a look at this patch viewed in a browser: >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/6674/trac_6674-use-ascii.patch > > Right, so what happens if we se

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Have a look at this patch viewed in a browser: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/6674/trac_6674-use-ascii.patch Right, so what happens if we set default_charset to utf-8 in trac.ini? http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracIni

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Carlo, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Carlo Hamalainen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Just an aside: with UTF-8 in source files, one can't read the >> non-ASCII characters in the patch when viewed using trac or a browser. >> Just my 2-cent. > > Why does tra

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Just an aside: with UTF-8 in source files, one can't read the > non-ASCII characters in the patch when viewed using trac or a browser. > Just my 2-cent. Why does trac have an issue with non-ASCII characters? It doesn't do utf-8? -- Carlo Häm

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dag, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> An O with double dots is definitely not an A. It might be represented as >> "Oe" (though I'm open for correction about the usual practice in from >> Swedish/Finnish people). > > Actually, you are probably talking about dif

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Dag wrote: > Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, David Kirkby >> wrote: >>> >>> 2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen : Hi folks, Michael Abshoff has complained before about using non-ASCII characters in patches. Today, I experienced first-hand why he comp

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dag, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > An O with double dots is definitely not an A. It might be represented as > "Oe" (though I'm open for correction about the usual practice in from > Swedish/Finnish people). > > I don't know whether Sage has made a decision t

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, David Kirkby > wrote: >> >> 2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen : >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Michael Abshoff has complained before about using non-ASCII characters >>> in patches. Today, I experienced first-hand why he complained. The >>> thing is

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > > 2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen : >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Michael Abshoff has complained before about using non-ASCII characters >> in patches. Today, I experienced first-hand why he complained. The >> thing is, if a Sage library file contains

[sage-devel] Re: only use ASCII characters in patches

2009-08-04 Thread David Kirkby
2009/8/4 Minh Nguyen : > > Hi folks, > > Michael Abshoff has complained before about using non-ASCII characters > in patches. Today, I experienced first-hand why he complained. The > thing is, if a Sage library file contains non-ASCII characters, this > can result in errors or warnings when loadin