From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:04:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060109090448.GA8505@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601082210.09536.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:10:09PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> >
> > I'd say ACK. However,
> >
> > > iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to
> > > ASCII. The default is to do no conversion. Use
> > >- iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations. This requires
> > >+ iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations. This requires
> > > CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file.
> >
> > If you are really nitpicky about the "-", then it should also be
> > "iocharset=utf-8" (and whereever else). Or what's the real purpose of
> > adding the dashes in only half of the places, then?
>
> Also what's "Unicode 16" as used in several places in the kernel. Surely this
> should be changed to UTF-16, which is the _encoding_ for the unicode
> character space.
It might also be UCS-2 and not UTF-16 in some places. They do differ.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-09 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-08 20:38 [PATCH] It's UTF-8 Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-08 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-08 22:09 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-01-08 22:10 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-09 9:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2006-01-08 22:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-09 12:48 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-01-09 8:28 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-01-09 11:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-01-09 18:44 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-10 0:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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