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From: H. Peter Anvin
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:33 pm

Alan Cox wrote:

Not to mention the fact that UCS-2 ran out of code points almost as soon 
as they said "no more codepoints."  The result was UTF-16, a hideous 
abortion which took all the problems with wide encodings, combined it 
with all the problems of multibyte encodings, and added a few new ones 
for good measure.

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