Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:28:33 +0200 From: [email protected]
× is included in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), so it should be quite safe anyway, Unicode or no Unicode.
"Safe"? As if we weren't fighting with shitty software all the time.
Emacs is not shitty software. :)
People are unfortunately still using all kinds of encodings,
Yeah, but not for /source code/. In general it's either US-ASCII ("pure" 7-bit), or Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), or as of recently UTF-8. Compilers tend to be picky about these things.
In my country overwhelming majority of computer users still use the non-standard variation or ISO 8859-2 produced by [Microsoft].
I remember Windows-1252 from my Windows 98 days (I assume you refer to Windows-1250). It augmented Latin-1 with some extra punctuation (replacing control characters), which was wicked cool in the absence of Unicode support. Windows could interpret pure Latin-1 as Windows-1252 without problems, but the enhanced punctuation would be unreadable outside of Windows. Ah, memories. :) Of course, since × is punctuation, its position is less likely to vary than, say, Ø. Indeed, it's D7 in ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, Windows-1250, Windows-1252 and UTF-8.
And the nice advantage of UTF-8 is that it's ASCII-compatible -- i.e. as long as it does not contain codepoints above 127, problems never occur.
I think that's nice too, but Asians complain because their characters are encoded as multi-byte all the way, increasing the file size. (Us Norwegians only encounter multi-byte with Ææ Øø Åå, so we get a much nicer deal. Of course, UTF-8 doesn't save us from the madness of the Norwegian QWERTY layout.)
Does "changeset" have a different meaning in Git, or is it not used at all?
It's not used at all. A nice place where all the Git termini technici are explained is the `gitglossary' man page (it's also available online on the Git website, in case your system doesn't have it).
Thanks for the tip. So I guess it's either "commit [2c87f791af]" or "revision [2c87f791af]". What sounds best? (The brackets are for consistency with Trac.) Vegard _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Mail. Flere kontoer på ett sted. http://download.live.com/wlmail