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Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.65 coming soon


From: Andreas Grünbacher
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.65 coming soon
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:03:58 +0100

Yashi,

2016-11-02 17:26 GMT+01:00 Yasushi SHOJI <address@hidden>:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Jean Delvare <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
>> --charset
>>         Specify a particular message encoding on systems which don't use
>>         UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15. This character encoding must match the one
>>         used in the patches.
>>
>> Are we good with this?
>
> Yes.
>
> What I'm not sure is that UTF-8 is an encoding but used at "charset".
> When "UTF-8" is used in the content-type header line, does it mean
> the message used UCS, is the "charset" header used for
> encodings, or is charset and encoding interchangeable here?
>
> If we align the name and the description:
>
> Specify a character set for the messages on systems which don't use
> UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15.  The specified character set must match...
>
> But I like the original better. ;-)

In any case, we should at least go with either "character encoding" or
"character set" in both sentences. The parameter defines both the
character set and the encoding.

Thanks,
Andreas



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