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On 2018-08-14 00:16, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/13/2018 04:29 PM, Houder wrote:
> 
>>> The modication would require changing:
>>> 
>>> winsup/cygwin/fenv.cc (_feinitialise() )
>>> winsup/cygwin/include/fenv.h (FE_ALL_EXCEPT)
>> 
>> GRRR! The file encoding of fenv.h is "cp1252" because of 2 characters 
>> in this
>> line:
>> 
>>       Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals:
>> 
>> ... part of a comment at the beginning of the file.
>> 
>> (the registered trademark sign (u00ae) is encoded as 0xae (cp1252), 
>> while it
>>   would be: 0xc2 0xae, in utf-8,
>>   the right single quotation mark (u2019) is encoded as 0x92 (cp1252), 
>> but in
>>   utf-8 it would be: 0xc2 0x80 0x98)
>> 
>> I intend to convert the file encoding of fenv.h to utf-8. Is that a 
>> "No-No"
>> or is it allowed? (I assume GIT will notice).
> 
> In general, git doesn't care if you change a file's encoding - that's
> just another content change.  In practice, you may get weird effects
> when viewing that particular patch (as the patch is not well-formed in
> the new multibyte locale, and looks funky when displayed in the old
> locale), and emailing a patch may require care in telling git which
> encoding to use for the email; but that's cosmetic, and shouldn't
> matter in the long run.  Updating the code base to uniformly use UTF-8
> seems reasonable to me.

... and emailing a patch may require care in telling git which encoding
to use for the email ... Huh, huh ?????

Last time I used:

  - git format-patch
  - git send-mail

Am I safe here?

Regards,
Henri

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