Hi Alexandre, * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:15:37AM CET: > >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Didn't add a thank you note to the last ChangeLog entry yet -- > Ralf> are the Libtool developers alright with UTF-8 encoded ChangeLog*, > Ralf> THANKS, (maybe eventually AUTHORS) files? > > Automake has utf-8 ChangeLog and THANKS file since a few months. > Gettext started a few years ago (IIRC it even uses unicode > characters in C comments).
IIRC there are compilers which don't like putting it in C source. Don't remember, though, whether comments only were ok. > I think it is safe to use utf-8 today as long as it is not in > (portion of) files that get installed in user packages. OK, good. > Ralf> Any emacs-foo I'd need to add at the top or bottom? > > ;; Variables: > ;; coding: utf-8 > ;; End: > > at the end, or > > -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > at the beginning. Or nothing and rely on autodetection. Beginning is not so nice, because that makes merging patches a little more clumsy. At the very end is not so nice for Libtool, because that's where the $Revision$ comes, used for some rebuilding stuff. I'll just rely on autodetection and see who breaks it first. :) (probably that's going to be me, since I have a non-UTF8-ready system I sometimes work on.) Regards, Ralf
