Re: [RFC] Suggesting UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Ludovic Courtès]

Patrice Dumas <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 10:35:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am submitting for discussion the change below, which makes UTF-8 the
>> recommended encoding instead of ASCII.
>> 
>> I am unsure about the wording, but the intent is to make UTF-8 more
>> natural, rather than a second choice when “there’s a good reason to do
>> [it].”
>> 
>> WDYT?
>
> I agree for text documents and "other contexts" but in comments, I think
> it would be better to stick to ascii, unless “there’s a good reason to
> do  [it].”

Given that comments are written in English, they are essentially ASCII
anyway.

However, I’d like to suggest that things like the copyright sign,
characters that appear in people’s names, etc. are all acceptable in
comments too.

WDYT?

Ludo’.