Re: [dev] UTF-8 copyright symbol

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:50:05PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>2009/10/22 markus schnalke <meillo_AT_marmaro.de>:
>> Dwm, surf, and probably more suckless projects contain the copyright
>> symbol as UTF-8 character. In most cases, if not always, it is the only
>> non-ASCII character in those files.
>>
>> I suggest to replace it with ``Copyright'' or ``Copyright (c)''.
>> (``(c)'' alone is not enough from the lawyer POV, AFAIK.)
>>
>> Although most modern software can deal with UTF-8 chars, why use them
>> when not necessary? In this case, we'll not lose anything but may avoid
>> problems.
>>
>> What speaks against?
>
>Nothing, but the copyright character will stay, it is less verbose and
>the official character for copyright notices.
>I'm not concerned that in some exotic setups this character hasn't got
>a glyph in the font or isn't part of 7bit ASCII.

Well, that was decisive and clear. But don't try to spoil our
flame war.

-- 
Kris Maglione
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
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