From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932349AbVHNX2y (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:28:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932352AbVHNX2y (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:28:54 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:7656 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932349AbVHNX2y convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:28:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Stephen Pollei , Jason L Tibbitts III , "Martin v." =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=F6wis?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1124049592.4918.2.camel@mindpipe> References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> <1123958572.11295.7.camel@mindpipe> <1124049592.4918.2.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:55:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1124063754.28862.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2005-08-14 at 15:59 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit. Its a trivial patch and there is a lot to be said for UTF-8 scripts. As to writing code in ascii, the kernel regularly has outbreaks of either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-* especially in the docs directory. Standardising these on UTF-8 would be helpful. Yes the kernel code is C so ASCII except for the odd abuser of the © symbol. Alan