[PROPOSED PATCH] Convert source files to UTF-8

[PROPOSED PATCH] Convert source files to UTF-8

[Paul Eggert]

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Attached is a patch to convert glibc source files to UTF-8, if they're 
not in UTF-8 now and there's no good reason to use some other encoding.  
Since this patch contains mixed encodings it's likely to give email 
clients conniptions, so I've compressed it and attached the compressed 
version.  It should all be fairly straightforward if you can get past 
the encoding problems.

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Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Convert source files to UTF-8

[Roland McGrath]

Converting old ChangeLog files (or any other files not involved in the
build or install) is an "obvious enough".  Just do that on its own and
commit it.

Then for further changes you can follow our protocol, which requires
including the ChangeLog entries in the message outside any patch or
attachment.  That makes it reasonable to have a review thread at all
for a patch that has to be in an encoded attachment.

What I'd recommend for the first set of changes is replacing non-ASCII
literal bytes in strings with C escapes, and any conversions in comments
or string literals in any file.  That's a change for which you can report
that you've verified the build products are completely unchanged before
and after the change.  Then it needs barely any review, and can go in
very quickly.

Attack the other changes after those are in.


Thanks,
Roland