DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:39, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:59, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Adding Š mandatorily to our files would irrevocably encode them in
> > UTF-8 and require everyone to use an UTF-8 capable editor. Are we
> > sure that's reasonable?
>
> Isn't UTF8 already a requirement for sources? At least there are many
> contributors who cannot encode their name in iso-8859-1 (or 2),
> including me (even if I don't use the accented characters), so anytime
> you modify a file who has such a name without an utf-8 editor, you will
> break  their names.

We had the same discussion some time ago and the conclusion was that, yes,
indeed all our sources should be in utf-8.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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