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[Norbert Preining]

Paulo,

Just one comment: there is nothing like the "correct encoding". Here in Japan we use daily at least two to three.

So files that are in the encoding idea by those people mostly using the software are in the correct encoding, even if it is not utf8.

Best

Norbert

On March 14, 2020 10:09:02 AM GMT+09:00, Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com> wrote:
>TeXLive does change a LOT of people's projects and files - to the better I
>can easily see, but this is not what I am proposing. What I would like to
>see is a set of standards -- which already exists -- like self-relocating,
>etc ...
>
>If you saw something wrong in a program -- you would change it -- and
>possibly feed it back to the owner. In the same way documentation (and
>non-doc) files like:
>
>2) Je mo¾né pøímo pou¾ít pøipravený program vlna.exe.
>3) S vhodným pøekladaèem a pøi tro¹e ¹tìstí lze té¾ kompilovat program
>
>Program poskytuji k veøejnému pou¾ití. Pokud nìkdo udìlá u¾iteèné
>zmìny ve zdrojovém textu CWEB, chtìl bych být o tom informován. Bez
>souhlasu autora nemù¾e být zmìnìný program ¹íøen pod stejným názvem.
>
>Nedávám ¾ádnou záruku, ¾e program nepo¹kodí mnohahodinovou práci,
>kterou u¾ivatelé editovali. Program sice vytváøí zálohové soubory, ale
>ty se pøi dal¹ím pou¾ití programu ma¾ou.
>
>Dìkuji panu Rudolfu Èejkovi za vytvoøení Makefile a manuálové stranky
>k programu. Rovnì¾ mu dìkuji za odstranìní drobných chyb programu, které
>se vyskytly ve verzi 1.0.
>
>18. 7. 2008       Petr Ol¹ák
>
>are just wrong -- and should be fixed -- and most them are corrected by a
>change in the encoding -- to the correct one.
>
>Paulo Ney
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:00 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Well....it was done to a lot of files. How come some got changed and some
>> did not?
>>
>> PN
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 7:06 PM Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>>
>>>     Would it be possible to convert all text files to UTF-8?
>>>
>>> No. I am not going to randomly change other people's files.  Feel free
>>> to report it upstream (not to me) if you care sufficiently. -k
>>>
>>


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