From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48167A07.4000305@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu>
Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not
> everyone reads UTF-8.
"Everyone" who speaks a Western European language, perhaps; and even
then, mostly because a lot of tools still have a "oh, it's not valid
UTF-8, guess iso-8859-1" mode. The most common instance of non-ASCII
characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty
of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1.
The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to
UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII
character set unless impossible.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 15:40 [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments Adrian Bunk
2008-04-28 23:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 1:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-29 5:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 7:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 8:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 9:06 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-29 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 10:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 22:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 23:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-01 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-01 9:46 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2008-04-29 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 10:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 11:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 11:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 20:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-30 9:15 ` Helge Hafting
2008-04-30 19:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-30 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 9:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-29 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 20:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 20:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-09 12:48 ` David Kågedal
2008-04-29 9:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 9:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29 9:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 9:41 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-29 12:18 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-30 0:08 Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30 3:38 ` Chris Adams
2008-04-30 9:38 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-04-30 19:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-30 19:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03 23:50 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-04 8:55 ` Willy Tarreau
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