Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <200902140125.47790.vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > > is there any statements that i cannot find dictating the proper encoding of > files ? considering git itself whines when things are not proper utf8 > encoded, i'd expect that this would carry over to the files in u-boot itself. > > for example, the MAINTAINERS and the CREDITS files are both using iso-8859-1 > encoding. this can readily be seen with people who have umlauts in their
There is no formal declaration yet, but so far encoding has always been iso-8859-1 (resp. iso-8859-15). > names, although some places have been avoided by using the ASCII form of "oe" > and "ue" rather than ö and ü. i'd certainly prefer if we take a hard stance > on documentation and similar files by requiring unicode encoding. i'd prefer > all files be unicode, but i wouldnt care nearly as much with source code > (comments and such). I prefer to stick with iso-8859-1. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de You got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference." - Terry Pratchett, _Witches Abroad_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
