John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis: > 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.
Not in 2014, no. > 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? That’s most likely because ‘less’ isn’t invoked with a UTF-8 locale. Try doing, say: LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 less maths.scm. It may be the same problem that affects the MUA. > 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." When I have spare time and energy for that, I’ll happily submit a patch. :-) GNU standardized native language support, presumably because it makes the freedom to use the program practical for a wider range of people. For the same reason, time has come to say goodbye to ASCII. Thanks, Ludo’.
