Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source

[hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)]

Followup to:  <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org>
By author:    David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel

> The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings.
> These are almost always output to devfs or proc.  The characters used are
> the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds).
> I do not want to make a value judgement on what the kernel outputs
> to userspace, so I leave the strings the same.  However, C99 makes it
> implementation defined how the source character set is translated to
> the character set in the compiled binary...  Therefore, I've taken the
> raw octets and converted them in the source file to octal constants in
> the strings, just to make sure cc doesn't mangle things if you set your
> locale differently...
> 

I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol.

Plain ASCII would be better, though.

	-hpa