[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main ChangeLog,1.197,1.198

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Apr 22 12:36:35 CEST 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:29:53PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:14:20AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 10:32:56PM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > +    * put changed notices into all imported files for GPL §2a compliance
> > > 
> > > may i object to this senseless use of latin1 encoding in ascii files?
> > > writing out the word "section" would not be difficult, or just using
> > > the ascii character S...
> > 
> > You may, although a bit of an explanation why this is a problem would be
> > appreciated.  § is valid in all charsets I am familiar with...
> 
> It's not valid ascii or utf8. The character exists in unicode of
> course but it's not encoded as you have written it in the docs, which
> is a latin1 (maybe latin*?) encoding.

I'm quite confident it should be valid in all latin encodings.  Anyway,
I've removed it.

Diego




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