On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:06:05AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:Non-ancient distributions default to UTF-8 and have tools that handle it fine. If you had bad experiences in the last millenium you should try again. Accents are very rare in names in the kernel. Most non-ASCII characters are umlauts and there's no sane way to express them in ASCII (and the vowels without umlaut are pronounced quite differently and might even make names look very strange). And that's only within European languages, outside it becomes even worse. The comments in the kernel have been converted to UTF-8 quite some time ago, what I'm fixing with my patch is just some recent non-UTF-8 stuff that creeped in. And names in comments in the kernel were not pure ASCII since very early, they were in other charsets. Mostly iso-8859-1, but not all of them. I remember that for one name we first guessed which character it was and then tried to figure out which charset it was in (no, it was not one of iso-8859-*). So it was not "ASCII -> UTF-8", it was "several different charsets -> UTF-8". cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --
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