Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:43:09 +0100
> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
> 
> Is there any particular encoding
> or character set that shall be used for this?  Changelogs are in
> iso-2022-7bit.  Is that what I must use for user-full-name?

No need for such complications: Emacs will do that for you.  Just use
Latin-1 characters in your username, and Emacs will automatically
encode them in iso-2022-7bit (since that's how ChageLog file is
decoded when you visit it).