Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>

To: Willy Tarreau <w@...>

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <trivial@...>

Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Date: Monday, April 28, 2008 - 9:29 pm

Willy Tarreau wrote:
quoted text> Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not
> everyone reads UTF-8.

"Everyone" who speaks a Western European language, perhaps; and even 
then, mostly because a lot of tools still have a "oh, it's not valid 
UTF-8, guess iso-8859-1" mode.  The most common instance of non-ASCII 
characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty 
of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1.

The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to 
UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII 
character set unless impossible.

	-hpa

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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)


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