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| author | Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> | 2009-07-27 20:27:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> | 2009-07-27 20:27:48 +0200 |
| commit | 862b513f431a0f36bf0902b651bfc362f99a3bab (patch) | |
| tree | 92f5fde8e6f087d2a8358a01ac1da8665dc36899 /TODO | |
| parent | dd8c5be060a7c7ed2d14eee8b9e9032f4a797bc9 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-archive-862b513f431a0f36bf0902b651bfc362f99a3bab.tar.gz | |
Avoid non-ASCII characters in m4 files.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 27 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#+TITLE: Autoconf Archive TODO -*- mode:org;coding:utf-8;fill-column:79; -*- +#+TITLE: Autoconf Archive TODO -*- mode:org;fill-column:79; -*- * TODO Document our new mailing lists. @@ -21,32 +21,6 @@ been changed in Git. Other branches, like 'maint', aren't tracked; there is only a moderate amount of traffic. - -* TODO Decide how to handle non-ASCII content in m4 files - - Several macros contain non-ASCII characters, for example: - - : $ grep@ Ludo m4/*.m4 - : m4/_ac_c_ifdef.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - : m4/ac_cxx_compiler_vendor.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - : m4/ac_cxx_cppflags_std_lang.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - : m4/ac_cxx_cxxflags_std_lang.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - : m4/ac_cxx_ldflags_std_lang.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - : m4/ac_libtoolize_cflags.m4:# Copyright (c) 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org> - - The encoding currently in use is "latin1", but the m4 files don't expose - that information. The situation can be improved as follows: - - 1) Add machine-readable charset declarations (i.e. for Emacs) to all m4 - files. (Or just to those that actually use non-ASCII?) - - 2) Encode all files in UTF-8, like everyone else seems to do. (But add - charset declarations anyway?) - - 3) Restrict m4 files to ASCII. - - Pure ASCII is my favorite. - * TODO Figure out how to generate the AUTHORS file The file should contain the people who committed to Git and the people who |