File encoding

Mathieu Lacage mathieu_lacage at myrealbox.com
Sun Nov 7 10:10:28 PST 2004


hi keith,

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 04:16, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 21 o'clock on Nov 4, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Just noticed that all the files that were added in xserver/hw/xgl
> > have iso-8859-1 not © UTF-8 signs in them. I'd think that we could join
> > the 21st century and at least for new files use UTF-8.
> 
> Yes, all new files in xserver or xlibs CVS should use UTF-8.  I'd like to
> encourage the same in xc.  I think this permits much more readable comments.†
> 
> -keith
> 
> † Especially when writing mathematical descriptions as in:
> 	∂E²∕∂θ = (1−cosΔ)² (M²−m²) (−2cosθsinθ)

out of curiosity, how did you generate this utf ? ie: what editor did
you use ?

thanks,
Mathieu

> The ASCII equivalent is a lot harder to read:
> 	D(E^2)/D(T) = (1-cos(D))^2 * (M^2-m^2) * (-2*cos(T)*sin(T))
> 
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