Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit messages not 8-bit compatible

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Typo, sorry, I meant ISO-8859-1. (ISO-8859-1 == Latin-1, right?)

Yup. (It's not true for all values of X that ISO-8859-X == Latin-X
though, since there are some non-latin ISO-8859s. :)

> Aaaaaah, this is what I didn't understand, thanks.
>
> (My locale has always been English, and I don't change it when I'm
> editing other languages, so I'm not used to thinking of locale as a
> reliable indicator of what language a particular document is in. But
> I guess it's the best we can do).

The $LC_CTYPE is usually a pretty good indication of what charset is
being used. At least among non-english users. :-) It's not related
to language, only to character encoding.

  // Marcus

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:24:56 2002