On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:33:05PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > PS: Your MUA seems to have troubles quoting non-ASCII text.
I'm glad you raised that issue. I would prefer it if we could avoid the gratiutous use of non-ascii characters. Although they can be handles in GNU/Linux, it is troublesome. For example doing a simple less gnu/packages/maths.scm provokes the response: "gnu/packages/maths.scm" may be a binary file. See it anyway? And then the header is displayed as: ;;; Copyright <C2><A9> 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright <C2><A9> 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright <C2><A9> 2014 John Darrington <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright <C2><A9> 2014 Eric Bavier <[email protected]> Is it really necessary to use a UTF-8 char here? ok it looks nice when everything works, but terrible in the other 90% of situations. The same goes for quotes " is a perfectly acceptable character instead of things that rarely display properly. The GNU Coding standards say: "Sticking to the ASCII character set (plain text, 7-bit characters) is preferred in GNU source code comments, text documents, and other contexts, unless there is good reason to do something else because of the application domain." I don't see that such reason exists in here. J'
