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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Non-ASCII chars in visor.c messages
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:18:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030722131832.GB2389@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030722150941.E26218@fi.muni.cz>

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:09:42PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> : > 
> : > 	What do you think about it?
> : 
> : I don't think it's really needed.  Why change this, syslog can't handle
> : this?  It works for me...
> : 
> 	Yes, syslog can handle this, but in order to parse syslog files
> you should have your LC_CTYPE set to something Latin-1 compatible
> (which UTF-8 is not, and it is the default on many distros).
> 
> 	Why Latin-1 and not UTF-8? I think UTF-8 is more "correct", while
> ASCII is "works for all". Latin-1 is neither "correct" nor "works for all".

So how do you encode that character in UTF-8?

If we are going to print device names, I want to be correct in their
usage...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22 12:38 [Patch] Non-ASCII chars in visor.c messages Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 12:50 ` Greg KH
2003-07-22 13:09   ` Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 13:18     ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-22 14:03       ` Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 14:16   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:16   ` Pavel Machek

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