Dear Reinhard Meyer,
Am 18.10.2010 23:37, schrieb Reinhard Meyer:
Dear Andreas Bießmann,
Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmannandreas.devel@googlemail.com
This is correct UTF8 coded line
+Andreas Bie�mannandreas.devel@gmail.com
This is a patch to a latin1 coded file. When you e.g. save this mail and look through it with 'cat <file> | less' you may see 'Andreas Bie<DF>mann andreas.devel@gmail.com'. When you then look for latin1 coding table you may see <DF> is 'ß'. So this is correct here. Some other files in the patch are still coded in utf-8 (as the mail is), therefore your MUA represents the stuff correct to you. The file MAINTAINERS is in latin1 coding cause a lot of/some other contributors also have non-ASCII characters in their names. A short test will show this to you:
open MAINTAINERS in vim; :set fileencoding=utf8; save; git diff
in the 2nd line the "ß" does not show here (a "FFFD" box is shown instead. Is it only me or do others have similar problems?
No, everyone with correct configured MUA should see this
I think that line was produced in a different code page?
Yes, the file MAINTAINERS is in latin1 while the mail and some other files touched are in utf-8.
Maybe we should refrain from using non ASCII characters within source code?
I don't know. But my surname is Bießmann and _not_ Biessmann.
Shouldn't we change the coding for all files to utf-8 instead?
regards
Andreas Bießmann