On 14 September 2012 17:30, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> we strongly recommend it be named as README.* and be
> utf-8 encoded text.
I'd very strongly recommend that the encoding should be mandated. I'm
happy with UTF-8 (although I expect a lot of "accidental" latin-1
files, particularly from Windows users) but I think it would be a
mistake to have the specification leaving the encoding of *any* string
data unclear. Without the encoding being specified, either in the
metadata itself ("Description-File-Encoding: utf8"? Please, no) or by
the specification mandating it, how is a program expected to read the
description?
Other than this point, I have no opinion on the proposal.
Paul.
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