From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755183AbYD2Jfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:35:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751434AbYD2Jf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:35:27 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:3515 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbYD2Jf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:35:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:34:58 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Alan Cox Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments Message-ID: <20080429093458.GA1473@1wt.eu> References: <20080428154023.GU2813@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu> <20080429100107.79ebf0cc@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080429100107.79ebf0cc@core> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:01:07AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > In fact, I would have better converted accentuated chars to their ASCII > > equivalent to be more friendly with people who only read 7-bit. > > Perhaps we should put them in latin as well just in case any Roman is > struggling with this new language 8) Distibutions have been shipping UTF > enabled by default for years and years. "enabled" does not mean "working" Alan. I know one distro which I will not name in order not to offense you which shipped with it enabled by default, but which would not properly display the characters on the console, resulting in mangled messages during boot. I particularly remember the "[ECHEC]" ("[FAILED]") with random garbage instead of the first 'E'. :-) Willy