Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars

Jeff Woods
2004-06-20T20:07:04Z

A LKML meta-patch:

@On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 16:49 +0100, matthew-lkml@newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
Please forgive me if I'm wrong on this, but I seem to remember reading
something a while ago indicating that the kernel is and always will be
-internally English (i.e. debugging messages and the like) as there is no
+internally that subset of English representable in 7-bit ASCII
+(i.e. debugging messages and the like) as there is no
need to bloat it with many different languages (that can be done in
userspace). As printk is really just a log system, I personally don't
see any way that it should ever print anything other than ASCII.

P.S. At 6/20/2004 03:17 PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>It's very naÃ¯ve of you to think that English means nothing but ASCII.
>Non-ASCII characters play a very important rÃ´le even in English
>communication.

Thank you for illustrating the point that maximizing portability and
compatibility favors simplicity.
--
Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>