From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161273AbVIPTIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161269AbVIPTIe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:08:34 -0400 Received: from albireo.ucw.cz ([84.242.65.108]:427 "EHLO albireo.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161273AbVIPTId (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:08:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:08:31 +0200 From: Martin Mares To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , =?iso-8859-2?B?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBM9ndpcyI=?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Message-ID: <20050916190831.GA3265@ucw.cz> References: <4N6EL-4Hq-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EL-4Hq-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EK-4Hq-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EX-4Hq-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6Ox-4Ts-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N7AS-67L-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <432B0A47.7060909@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > It should, but as long as old programs are still around, we'll have both > and need a marker to distinguish them. I doubt that. For ages people were using several different encodings on a single system (at least here in .cz) without any markers and although there were some rough edges, almost everything worked. Now we do the same with ISO-8859-2 and UTF-8, again with no need for a marker. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth Linux vs. Windows is a no-WIN situation.