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Re: [PATCH] git-mktree: reverse of git-ls-tree.

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Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Feb 21, 2006, 06:52 UTC
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<internationalization-pedant-mode> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:37 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> + * Copyright (c) Junio C Hamano, 2006

I've been told by at least two lawyers that the string '(c)' has no legal meaning in the US. If you want to indicate copyright, the only symbol which does carry legal weight is the c-in-a-circle mark '©'.

Of course, this does force the issue of what encoding to present source files in. I suggest that sources should be UTF-8, which also provides opportunities to encode author names correctly, rather than transliterating them to Latin. X.org uses UTF-8 for source files now without difficulty across a wide range of compilers. Of course, non-ascii glyphs are present only in comments.

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