* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:29:12PM CEST: > According to Bruno Haible on 8/26/2008 1:17 AM: > > The INSTALL file is supposed to be a plain-text file. Plain-text files are > > nowadays viewed with ISO 8859 or Unicode fonts. As described by Markus Kuhn > > [1], > > quotation with `...' looks ugly in these fonts. > > > > I'm adding rules to generate the INSTALL file with prettier quotes. Projects > > have the choice of picking up either INSTALL, INSTALL.ISO, or INSTALL.UTF-8. > > Are you planning on feeding these changes back to autoconf? Also, does > Automake need to be taught to auto-distribute INSTALL.ISO and/or > INSTALL.UTF-8, or is the intent that packages borrowing those files from > gnulib will rename them to INSTALL?
FWIW, a year or so back, RMS explicitly disapproved of non-ASCII in ChangeLog files. I'm pretty sure that at least the default INSTALL file would fall into the same category. Cheers, Ralf
