From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Schlemmer Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:15:25 +0200 Message-ID: <1113822925.16288.22.camel@nosferatu.lan> References: <20050417170539.B13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <4262A767.4040300@dwheeler.com> <20050417192000.C13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-B2p416qaOvOs8IsHKIPF" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "David A. Wheeler" , Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List , Peter Anvin , Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 13:09:04 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNU7A-0006GO-GI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:08:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262036AbVDRLMW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:12:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262034AbVDRLMW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:12:22 -0400 Received: from ctb-mesg5.saix.net ([196.25.240.77]:47064 "EHLO ctb-mesg5.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262036AbVDRLLp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:11:45 -0400 Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-244-27.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.244.27]) by ctb-mesg5.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFF86B39; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:11:35 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AEF3A26DC; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19808-08; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:43 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nosferatu.lan (nosferatu.lan [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher IDEA-CBC-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58AC3A26DA; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:42 +0200 (SAST) To: Russell King In-Reply-To: <20050417192000.C13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --=-B2p416qaOvOs8IsHKIPF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:20 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:13:59PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: > > >>BTW, there appears to be "errors" in the history committed thus far. > > >>I'm not sure where this came from though. Some of them could be > > >>UTF8 vs ASCII issues, ....>=20 > > ... > > >>One thing which definitely needs to be considered is - what character > > >>encoding are the comments to be stored as? > >=20 > > Linus Torvalds replied: > > > To git, it's just a byte stream, and you can have binary comments if = you > > > want to. I personally would prefer to move towards UTF eventually, bu= t I > > > really don't think it matters a whole lot as long as 99.9% of everyth= ing > > > we'd see there is still 7-bit ascii. > >=20 > > I would _heartily_ recommend moving towards UTF-8 as the > > internal charset for all comments. Alternatives are possible > > (e.g., recording the charset in the header), but they're > > incredibly messy. Even if you don't normally work in UTF-8, > > it's pretty easy to set most editors up to read & write UTF-8. > > Having the data stored as a constant charset eliminates > > a raft of error-prone code. >=20 > Except, I believe, MicroEMACS, which both Linus and myself use. As > far as I know, there aren't any patches to make it UTF-8 compliant. >=20 > The alternative is, I suppose, iconv. However, iconv in _my_ glibc > seems buggy (segfaults) and my efforts for building glibc 2.3.2 for > ARM have failed. Effectively that means iconv is inaccessible to > me. >=20 OT, and probably not much help, but glibc-2.3.5 is out ... --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-B2p416qaOvOs8IsHKIPF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCY5bNqburzKaJYLYRAuINAJ9BTszz4MHsawD0w+zZqUnMoEFKEwCfeM1f 1qCEz9u4Wk/lwnM38xAfxQg= =+hGH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-B2p416qaOvOs8IsHKIPF--