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"Hugo van der Sanden via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:
> A minor comment: not sure if we have a policy on it, but for me there
> should be a preference to have commit messages ASCII where possible.
Why? This is 2019, everything should be Unicode-capable by now, and
we've indeed been using non-ASCII characters in commit messages for a
long time.
~/src/perl$ git log -P --grep='[^[:ascii:]]' --oneline |wc -l
2209
The earliest non-ASCII commit message is:
commit f31700dc8965c83194d956522e573c5d4fdb4611
Author: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: 1998-08-07 21:36:04 +0000
don't use © in Test.pm (suggested by M.J.T. Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1749
> All three of your commit messages have some utf8 in there, and in no
> case does it look particularly necessary.
A lot of the non-ASCII in our commit history not "particularly
necessary": stuff like curly quotes (both from compiler messages and
manually typed), bullets, and ellipses.
- ilmari
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