[Bug 226079] Merge Review: libxml2

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Summary: Merge Review: libxml2


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226079


j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl changed:

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------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2008-05-31 02:25 EST -------
About the text files encoding discussion.

Although I fully agree with Daniel that blindly converting text-ish files which
actually specify an encoding in their headers is both wrong and dangerous as
that actually breaks stuff, normal text files, esp. ones in %doc should be in
UTF-8, so that when opened they display correctly.

Indeed the changelog is a perfect example of why all plain text files must be
UTF-8, had it always been UTF-8 the problems between part being in west-european
encoding and parts in east-european encoding would not exist.

Also I think its worth noting that Fedora is not the only distro doing this,
Debian for example also tries to have all text files in the distro in UTF-8.

Now I can understand when Daniel says that he has higher priority things to fix.
So Daniel, as upstream, will you take a patch changing the encoding of all files
which end up in %doc, which changes them to UTF-8? and even fix the changelog to
be UTF-8 (split it in pieces, iconv pieces, put back together)


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