[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] converting all files in help/ to UTF-8

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hi,
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:17:52PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:41:35PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > currently MPlayer by default converts the files in help/ to UTF-8 during
> > compilation. So the question is: are there any objections to just
> > convert them to UTF-8 in our tree? e.g. are any of you having problems
> > editing UTF-8 files? Any other comments?
> 
> I still don't have an UTF-8 system.  I'm aware that I will have to
> eventually bite the bullet and convert, but I'm not totally aware what
> this entails.  Could somebody point me at the relevant documentation?

That is not a point. vim and actually AFAIK any sane editor (i.e.
probably anything except windows notepad) can edit UTF-8 files.
I think the AUTHORS file is in UTF-8 if someone needs to test.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger