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[Paulo Ney de Souza]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:33 PM Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

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


And I assume they are all correct -- in the sense they display the right
thing to a reader.

But something that is signed with "Petr Ol¹ák" is very big indication that
the file was written in ISO-8859-2 and saved in ISO-8859-1. In fact if you
change it -- the whole file becomes correct.

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
>

Not always!  Just check the documentation for "vlna" and you will see.

Paulo Ney



> 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
> >>>
> >>
>
>
> --
> PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info
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