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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: copyright messages
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-04-01 20:03:37
Message-ID: 200404012203.38533.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 20:03, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> Hello Nicolas,
>
> --- Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > No, that would be annoying for everybody, as it
> > would force to open/save every
> > single source file as UTF-8, which is currently not
> > needed (only a few files
> > need it.)
> >
> > (There is no extended ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8
> > are byte-to-byte different
> > outside ASCII, even if ISO-8859-1 is 1:1 inside
> > Unicode. But UTF-8 codes it
> > differently.)
> >
> > > character -no extra font needed, so I think we can
> >
> > use
> >
> > For Western Europe / Northern America only!
>
> Silly me! And I already did a test... with
> kspread/KSpreadAppIface.cc
>

> It compiled on my system and the CVS didn't seem to
> mind and it displays ok on WEBCVS.

Gcc does not really care. For it, it is just a sequence of bytes, especially 
here, a sequence in a comment. (However C++ itself is on the way to UTF-8 and 
the i18n() calls in KDE need UTF-8.)

As for CVS, it is very neutral. (Even binaries are treated as "text"...)

As for WebCVS, it seems not to declare any encoding of its HTML documents, so 
it is probably assumed to be ISO-8859-1.

>
> But I'l put it right.
>
> I think that in info files it is also customary to use
> (C).
>
> What I propose is to structure *every* line as follows
>
>
> Copyright (C) year1(-year2)(,year3,...) first name
> last name <email address>

Yes, please, that is what most of KDE (and therefore KOffice) uses.

>
> By putting the word copyright on every line we have
> some protection against lines being dropped
> inadvertently.
>
> Marc

Have a nice day!

(...)

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