svn commit: r228909 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:21:57 +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
> Author: dougb
> Date: Tue Dec 27 10:21:57 2011
> New Revision: 228909
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228909
> 
> Log:
>   1. Remove a bunch of duplicates. Usually this means removing them from
>      fortunes, but occasionally remove them from the other 2 files when
>      they are not offensive, or not murphy'ish enough.
>   
>      Where the version in fortunes had better attribution and/or formatting,
>      copy it over.
>   
>   2. Fix a few typos
>   
>   3. Use the full name of François De La Rochefoucauld, fix one of his
>      quotes, and remove the duplicate of it.

Sigh,

except for a stupid Unicode version of an apostrophe (’ vs ') this file
was ASCII. And I made it so for a reason. We don't currently have a way
to iconv fortune(6)'s output to the users LC_CTYPE. ASCII is the common
denominator so that's what we have to choose to be bug free.

My plan was to teach fortune to use bsdiconv once that is ready and in
the tree to convert from Unicode to the users' locale. But until that is
ready, we have to stick to ASCII.

This is not a backout request, merely an explanation for why things were
the way they were. I wish we'd mandated UTF-8 as the one true encoding a
looong time ago. If Plan9 could do it, why not us?

Cheers,
Uli