Re: (C) vs. whatever

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>]

Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote:

>In message <87veekebsz.fsf@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney 
><bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> writes
>
>    "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> writes:
>
>        Ben Finney wrote:
>        > [the (C) sequence is] possibly not a valid copyright
>        > indicator. The © symbol is unambiguous under the law, and thus
>        > preferred.
>
>
>        "unambiguous under the law", but technical ambiguous. What character
>        encoding should be used?
>
>
>    The same encoding as the rest of the file. 
>
>
>And if that encoding is 7-bit ascii ???

Write the word "Copyright".  This is perfectly sufficient for notice 
under the laws I've seen -- except the Universal Copyright Convention, 
which is only relevant for six countries in the entire world.