From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:11:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464B1F3E.1020200@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705160855270.9570@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On May 15 2007 23:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
>>> Since everyone else is doing it, why not me as well. Looks like I had
>>> a nice retro 7-bit a-umlaut in the tree from ten years ago too!
>>> (That was back when ISO 8859-1 didn't work universally...).
>>> I hope my mailer is setup correctly for this,
>>> http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/pp-goes-utf8.patch has the same in
>>> case something in the middle munges up the utf-8.
>> Your message came through tagged as iso-8859-1.
>
> Which perhaps is best, because UTF-8 is 'valid' ISO-8859-1 afaict,
> while the reverse is not true.
NAK. The vast majority of UTF-8 is *not* valid ISO-8859-1. These kinds
of patches really should be sent as binary attachments (although not
necessarily *compressed* such, and 8-bit encoding would be better than
base64, but that seems to be a lot to ask from an MUA.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 23:54 [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups Marcin Garski
2007-05-14 0:08 ` Marcin Garski
2007-05-14 14:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 15:28 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-14 16:25 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 16:41 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 16:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 17:17 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 17:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 18:06 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 20:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 20:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 21:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 22:20 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 8:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-15 16:23 ` [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16 6:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-16 6:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 15:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-16 16:38 ` [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 (try #2) Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16 17:16 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16 17:53 ` Björn Steinbrink
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