[tz] Non-ASCII chars in southamerica file

Mariano Absatz - el Baby baby at baby.com.ar
Thu Dec 27 18:28:33 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for catching these problems.  Two proposed patches
> are attached.  The first fixes the problems by going back to ASCII.
> The second puts in a check for this problem, so that non-ASCII
> bytes like that don't slip into future releases.  At some point
> we may well want to add non-ASCII characters, but they should
> be UTF-8 I expect.  I've pushed these proposed patches into
> the unofficial experimental repository at github.
>

FWIW, as a Spanish speaker (and possibly the author of the mail messages in
Spanish which got converted into Latin-1 encoded comments) I vow for UTF-8
encoding rather than mutilation.

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Mariano Absatz - El Baby
www.clueless.com.ar
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