Re: [RFH] An early draft of v1.5.0 release notes

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Dec 27, 2006, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID: <200612271300.kBRD082j007703@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Perhaps that is the idea, but that idea is not described in above
> new feature announcement. "... to reencode the message to UTF-8 
> when displaying, if needed." would cover it, but perhaps better
> would be to cover this in more detail: "reencode message to UTF-8
> if i18n.commitencoding is not set to something other than UTF-8",
> or "reencode ... to i18n.commitencoding ... if needed".

And what happens to the people who can't/won't display UTF-8? This is a both a project wide configuration (how does stuff get saved) + a user/local configuration (how to display stuff).

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