Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS file corrections

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:32:48 +0100


On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:19:33AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> UTF-8 isn't a character set - its an encoded format.

Ok, I meant Unicode as the character set...

> I suggest iso-8859-1 as the charset to use, because I'm Anglocentric
> and its probably the most commonly used an easiest to support charset
> out there.

iso-8859-1 is already being used. This thread started because someone's
name (or something) couldn't be encoded in it and appeared wrong on
everyone else's display.

UTF-8 would seem fairer.

-- Jamie

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