File encoding

[Keith Packard]

Around 21 o'clock on Nov 4, Owen Taylor wrote:

> Just noticed that all the files that were added in xserver/hw/xgl
> have iso-8859-1 not © UTF-8 signs in them. I'd think that we could join
> the 21st century and at least for new files use UTF-8.

Yes, all new files in xserver or xlibs CVS should use UTF-8.  I'd like to
encourage the same in xc.  I think this permits much more readable comments.†

-keith

† Especially when writing mathematical descriptions as in:
	∂E²∕∂θ = (1−cosΔ)² (M²−m²) (−2cosθsinθ)
The ASCII equivalent is a lot harder to read:
	D(E^2)/D(T) = (1-cos(D))^2 * (M^2-m^2) * (-2*cos(T)*sin(T))
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