From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:49:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078825743.1558.21.camel@speedy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2j36d$2ej$1@terminus.zytor.com>
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:30 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <1078571331.963.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
> By author: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
> > ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8.
> >
>
> Unicode, yes. UTF-8, no. The ISO-8859-1 character "Å" (0xC5) does,
> indeed correspond to Unicode character U+00C5, but it's encoded 0xC3
> 0x85 in UTF-8.
Yeah, that's what I realized, after posting of course.
While utf-8ying the sources is certainly a good thing, I have mixed
feelings about kernel strings. It will render poorly in some
environments.
Maybe the all-ascii route is better for strings ?
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-09 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-04 10:05 [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source David Eger
2004-03-04 10:19 ` Meelis Roos
2004-03-04 10:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-04 21:51 ` Alex Belits
2004-03-05 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-05 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-05 21:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-05 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-05 21:17 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-05 21:26 ` Charles Cazabon
2004-03-05 21:20 ` David Eger
2004-03-05 23:24 ` David Eger
2004-03-05 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-06 11:08 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-03-06 11:14 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-09 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-09 9:49 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-03-06 13:33 ` Other bizarre thing... backspaces? David Eger
2004-03-06 14:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-14 16:25 ` Petr Baudis
2004-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source Geert Uytterhoeven
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2004-03-05 13:21 paolo ciarrocchi
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