Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 04/08/2005-19:15:15(-0700): Robin H. Johnson types
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > I've just gone through and fixed all of the broken utf-8 in metadata.xml
> > files. I think... There was rather a lot of it due to various editor
> > bugs which I'm hoping are no longer an issue. Requests:
> >
> > - Could anyone who can read whatever language 'vi' is please check a few
> > of the category metadata.xml files?
> vim-6.3.084 still breaks them, unless you set encoding=utf-8 in your vim
> settings. It's the same bug I spoke to you about earlier today.
>
> Open the metadata.xml (see no '[converted]' text).
> Save metadata.xml (see the '[converted]' text).
> File is now broken.
>
> As a vim workaround, maybe force encoding=utf-8 in the gentoo filetype
> stuff?

But utf-8 is supposed to be autodetected, since the default
fileencodings always contains utf-8, doesn't it? It is not
autodetected only if the file is not *strictly* utf-8.

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