Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: >> - your summary/subject was needlessly utf8-encoded. >> That makes it harder to read. > > For the sake of one apostrophe. It's a pity, I made Emacs do smart > quotes in text mode, and now it looks like I need an exception. What's > the problem with UTF-8 in this context, out of interest?
Didn't you notice how it was harder to read your UTF8-encoded Subject line in what I quoted? That was because you chose a UTF8-specific single quote character. It's better to just use the ascii single quote as apostrophe. Then there's no need for any encoding. > Thanks for the nit-list; I'll try to remember it exists and to refer > to it next time. Or just look at ChangeLog to see what other log entries look like.
