On May 3 2007 11:35, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
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>> >non-stupid/non-broken distributions of GNU/Linux and other major Un*ces
>> >should be based on (or at least compatible with) UTF-8 in basic
>> >operations. Files like the keymaps will be more work to convert, but they
>> >can be as well.
> >There's no reason for any non-UTF-8 to be in the tree at all, so
> >eventually it won't be a problem. I'm (slowly but surely) working on
> >converting everything in the tree. GCC handles UTF-8 just fine, and all
>
> In fact, GCC gives a crap about comments :)
> and otherwise sees things as o
On May 3 2007 09:21, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
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>There's no reason for any non-UTF-8 to be in the tree at all, so
>eventually it won't be a problem. I'm (slowly but surely) working on
>converting everything in the tree. GCC handles UTF-8 just fine, and all
In fact, GCC gives a crap about
> > Besides, based on the actual binary representation of UTF-8, it's
> > extremely unlikely for any ISO-8859-1 string to be detected as UTF-8. VIm
> > already does this: UTF-8 it handles natively, but open up one of these
> > unpatched files in VIm and you'll see "[converted]" at the bottom of
"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Besides, based on the actual binary representation of UTF-8, it's
> extremely unlikely for any ISO-8859-1 string to be detected as UTF-8. VIm
> already does this: UTF-8 it handles natively, but open up one of these
> unpatched files in VIm a
> > Did this file individually, per request. Will re-do the whole tree later
> > as I'm still working on my handy-dandy testing and patching tools and
> > don't have a lot of time outside of work until the summer gets underway.
>
> While this is probably inevitable, it would be nice if there was
"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Did this file individually, per request. Will re-do the whole tree later
> as I'm still working on my handy-dandy testing and patching tools and
> don't have a lot of time outside of work until the summer gets underway.
While this is probabl
