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Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:15:06PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 février 2009 à 18:13 +0100, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:40:31AM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > It has a latin1 (ISO-8859-1) character in it.
> >
> > The rpmlint is a flase alarm. It is not wrong to have a latin1 file
> > when the encoding is described in the file itself.
>
> It's not a false alarm. A latin1-encoded file will confuse all the text
> editors which have not got special magic to parse the encoding
> definition.
In all those cases, the encoding is available at the beginning of the
document, in an ascii section, so it is possible to start the editor
with the right encoding, or set the encoding to the one that is right.
--
Pat
IMO, since this is a TeX file, there is no reason to keep any non-ASCII
characters (unless nearly everything would end up in command form, such as
non-latin based languages). Editors in *nix land assume UTF-8 (or subsets
of). There are editors that infer the encoding, but I don't think they're
among the norm yet. Manually changing for a TeX file would be highly
unexpected.
- --Ben
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