x11drv: Escape international characters

Andreas Mohr andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Mon Jun 19 06:52:41 CDT 2006


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:46:02PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Andrew Talbot" <Andrew.Talbot at talbotville.com> wrote:
> 
> >It seems better to represent international characters with escape 
> >sequences,
> >both to increase clarity - especially for those who do not normally use
> >ISO-8859-1 encoding - and to make editing easier for some.
> 
> Please don't do that. Anyone who wants to edit keyboard tables should
> set editor to ISO-8859-1 encoding. Otherwise it becomes really hard to
> add new tables or fix existing ones by just comparing or even copy/pasting
> from the +key log.

So? Then why don't I see a *very prominent* notice in this file that tells
me to do just that whenever I plan to submit a patch? ;)

Could you perhaps add that if possible? (I don't have a current Wine tree
here right now, sorry)

Andreas



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