I have made a small text file describing the demos that I'd like to contribute, but then I was wondering was is the right locale to use to save it.
The default on my system, is utf-8, which is almost identical to ISO-8859-1 as long you don't have any weird characters in it, but then, if you have, escaping to more than one byte per character begins. Gedit propose me utf-8 and ISO-8859-15. And I believe ISO-8859-15 to be identical to ISO-8859-1 except for 2 characters I think. My guess is that the best is ISO-8859-1, but saving in ISO-8859-15 would be fine, and better (less risky) than utf-8. I mostly ask because I made the mistake of contributing file to a darcs using project one or two years ago with file(s) saved in utf-8, and that was causing problems. I remember a patch send by someone with unusual accents in his name making problems too. Well, in the case of my file, I belive it is plain ASCII, so it does not really matters, but anyway, I'd like to know what you think is best. I also think I remember someone saying that back-tick used in Haskell may be problematic when switching to unicode, but I don't really know, remember why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
