[racket-dev] Gnats & UTF8

Just in case: if you use gmail, make sure your encoding is set to UTF-8.

Thanks, Eli!

Robby

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> In preparation for a move to github, I've finished a very long and
> tedious[*] scan of the complete gnats db, and everything is now
> properly utf8-ized.  In addition, the web interface declares a utf8
> charset which means that the texts are fine there too.  There is one
> problem that is still left: incoming emails are added to the bug
> history without attention to charset (or encoding, but that's not as
> important).
>
> To make a long story short: please try to use UTF-8 in your emailers.
> Probably the biggest example of needing to do this is gmail, which for
> some reason doesn't default to UTF-8.  (On the first settings page
> there's a checkbox for "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing
> messages".)
>
>
> ([*] I thought that much of this could be automated... which extremely
> naive.  There were some examples of insanely bad encoding byproducts,
> in many cases I resorted to detective methods of googling names of
> people, using translate, grepping for bits of texts in other bugs,
> using Emacs to guess encodings, using iconv, and more.  In an extreme
> case (PR8719) the file was so broken that I had to figure out the
> quoted text from the string-constants file of the time and the commit
> that fixed it, then figure out how it was broken and write some code
> to unbreak it...  Emacs was absolutely essential for all of this.)
>
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