[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main ChangeLog,1.197,1.198

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:29:53PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:14:20AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 10:32:56PM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > 
> > > +    * put changed notices into all imported files for GPL §2a compliance
> > 
> > may i object to this senseless use of latin1 encoding in ascii files?
> > writing out the word "section" would not be difficult, or just using
> > the ascii character S...
> 
> You may, although a bit of an explanation why this is a problem would be
> appreciated.  § is valid in all charsets I am familiar with...

It's not valid ascii or utf8. The character exists in unicode of
course but it's not encoded as you have written it in the docs, which
is a latin1 (maybe latin*?) encoding.

Rich