Non-ASCII encoding (was: Re: proposed time zone package changes: Brazil; Mauritius; URL fixes)
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
asmodai at in-nomine.org
Tue Jul 1 07:52:44 UTC 2008
-On [20080701 09:30], Martin Jerabek (martin.jerabek at isis-papyrus.com) wrote:
>If more non-ASCII characters are going to be included in the tzdata
>files, I would like to propose to define UTF-8 as the official encoding
>of the tzdata files.
+1 on that.
>For example, the letter "r" in my surname should really be "ř", "Latin
>Small Letter R With Caron" (U+0159) which is not part of ISO 8859-1.
[snip]
>Martin Jerabek
Funny, you sent your email UTF-8 encoded, but leave your ř as r. ;)
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