Re: coding system in ChangeLog text

[Peter O'Gorman]

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DJ Delorie wrote:
| What coding system are we following in ChangeLogs?  We're starting to
| collect various 8-bit characters in people's names (which is a good
| sign, I suppose) but Emacs complained that it couldn't figure out the
| encoding this last time around.  A quick egrep shows a mix of
| obviously iso-latin-1 characters and things that look like wide
| characters.
|
| For example, just today:
|
| Rafael \201<A-tilde>\201vila de Esp\201<A-tilde>\201­ndola
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| And compare:
|
| 1998: Martin von L<A-tilde><paragraph>wis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| 2000: Martin v. L<o-umlaut>wis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|

See this thread:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2005-03/msg00002.html>

Or for the summary, Latin-1 should be used.

Peter
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