On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:01:28AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mardi 06 mars 2007, ? 17:31, Behdad Esfahbod a ?crit : > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > It'd be great to have the non-ascii characters in hexa, so for example: > > > "Mariano Su\xc3\xa1rez-Alvarez" instead of "Mariano Su?rez-Alvarez". > > > > Any reason for hex encoding? That's ugly, and we should handle UTF-8 > > just fine. > > Because it's a C string, and we're not using UTF-8 in our source code, I > believe. Old policy, or something like this.
It's a good policy. Nothing worse than having someone accidently get the wrong character encoding and stuff up your source code completely. It's easier to keep the source 7-bit clean, we don't type that many names that it is a pain. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list