Re: gnome-core / distributors

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:33:16AM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> > Now, I think that maybe the right thing to do for contributors.h file
> > would be to put all names in pure ascii only, and for theose that should
> > be written with some accents or in non-latin scripts: put a _( ) over the
> > ascii name, and put as comment the real name in utf-8 (telling in the
> > comment it is the real name in utf-8)
> 
> Sounds wierd.  As long as we don't use UTF-8 for source files you should
> not insert UTF-8 thingies in the files (IMO).  For the time being I'd
> prefer SGML/XML ISO entities in the comments.

I really doubt those entities exist for Han ideographics.
And any non-latin name will be an horror if written using entities.
Entites would be ok for names written in latin script only.

> Wait with you're improvement until we'll start to prepare GNOME 2.0.
> Okay?

Of course I can wait; but does using UTF-8 on comments make any harm ?

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Pablo Saratxaga

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