From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:33:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481777EC.4060601@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429111014.5a065b88@core>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode
>> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not.
>
> I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls
> causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and
> awkward programming interfaces.
>
Not to mention the fact that UCS-2 ran out of code points almost as soon
as they said "no more codepoints." The result was UTF-16, a hideous
abortion which took all the problems with wide encodings, combined it
with all the problems of multibyte encodings, and added a few new ones
for good measure.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 19:34 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
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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=481777EC.4060601@kernel.org \
--to=hpa@kernel.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=bunk@kernel.org \
--cc=helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=trivial@kernel.org \
--cc=w@1wt.eu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.