[Vortex] How to submit patches?

Francis Brosnan Blazquez francis at aspl.es
Mon Apr 14 16:54:52 CEST 2008


Hi Jens,

> Two things I've been meaning to ask regarding this:
> 
> (1) What text encoding are the files in? Actually the only non-ascii  
> characters appear to be in the name and address in the header at the  
> top of each file, but my editor seems to change those characters  
> around when I save changes, which causes spurious diffs. My editor  
> defaults to UTF-8, so are the files encoded in something else?

This is something not properly configured. We should change (and
check ;-) that all files are in utf-8. Next commit already includes an
update to make all sources to use utf-8.

> (2) Is the tab character assumed to be 4 or 8 spaces? I think I've  
> seen places where each appears to be used.

It should be 8. I don't remember at this point if we used 4, but it not
correct. 

Thanks for point. Cheers!

> —Jens
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Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis at aspl.es>
Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.




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