Re: miscue in latest commit of Arsen Arsenović patch

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Paul.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 13:47:31 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The recent Emacs commit 39380e1bd3bfc26e355445590e243fcfa940fc9f should 
> look like this in 'git log' output:

>    commit 39380e1bd3bfc26e355445590e243fcfa940fc9f
>    Author:     Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me>
>    AuthorDate: Sun Dec 22 19:33:29 2024 +0000
>    Commit:     Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>    CommitDate: Sun Dec 22 19:33:29 2024 +0000

>        Java Mode: introduce the keyword `assert'.
>        ...

> However, there was a glitch and instead I see a blotch "�" (U+FFFD 
> REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) where there should be "ć" (U+0107 LATIN SMALL 
> LETTER C WITH ACUTE).

> Since Arsen has another patch committed (by Dmitry) without the glitch, 
> I expect the problem is on Alan's end. Alan, are you running Emacs in a 
> single-byte locale to commit patches?

I'm running in a UTF-8 locale.  I don't know yet exactly what I did
wrong, but I'll be more careful in the future.

> If so, I suggest using a UTF-8 locale instead, whenever the commit
> contains non-ASCII characters in the author's name or commit message.

> To help avoid similar glitches in the future I installed the attached.

An excellent idea!

> Apologies to Arsen for the misspelling.

Apologies from me, too.

Plus regret that git was designed to prevent typos in commit messages
from being corrected.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).