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From: Willy Tarreau <w@...>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <trivial@...>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:05 pm

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:40:23PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not
everyone reads UTF-8. Now I get random crappy chars which cripple my
xterms when reading such comments, and I have to do a full-reset once
I've read them. It's not as if it was *that* important, and to be
honnest, if you had not sent this patch, I would not even have known
that non-ASCII characters were here. However, it will quickly get
annoying if a recursive grep returns those pesky codes on non-compatible
consoles...

Quite frankly, it does not bring anything beyond trouble. I'm not adding
a NAK here because I find this rude, but I don't like the orientation
we're taking with the sources. We should not force people to install
version X or Y of a particular system just to read sources.

In fact, I would have better converted accentuated chars to their ASCII
equivalent to be more friendly with people who only read 7-bit.

Regards,
Willy

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[2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Apr 28, 11:40 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, KOSAKI Motohiro, (Tue Apr 29, 8:18 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Mon Apr 28, 7:05 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 5:01 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 5:34 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 5:41 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Apr 29, 5:19 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Apr 28, 9:29 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 1:06 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, David Kågedal, (Fri May 9, 8:48 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 3:29 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 4:14 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 3:31 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 4:05 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 4:09 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 5:43 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Helge Hafting, (Tue Apr 29, 5:06 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 6:09 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Helge Hafting, (Wed Apr 30, 5:15 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Apr 30, 3:42 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Apr 30, 3:22 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 6:42 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 7:06 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 7:27 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 29, 7:32 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Apr 29, 4:18 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 6:10 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 3:33 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 6:33 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alexander E. Patrakov, (Thu May 1, 5:46 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 6:34 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 6:12 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 6:15 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Willy Tarreau, (Tue Apr 29, 7:05 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu May 1, 4:18 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, Alan Cox, (Tue Apr 29, 5:33 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments, H. Peter Anvin, (Tue Apr 29, 2:04 am)