From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758434AbYD2Jln (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753351AbYD2Jld (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:33 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:59089 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753722AbYD2Jlc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:33:55 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Helge Hafting Cc: Willy Tarreau , Adrian Bunk , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments Message-ID: <20080429103355.00c61fc2@core> In-Reply-To: <4816E4FD.5060605@aitel.hist.no> References: <20080428154023.GU2813@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu> <48167A07.4000305@kernel.org> <20080429050605.GA27875@1wt.eu> <20080429072911.GA28059@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080429081423.GD30507@1wt.eu> <4816E4FD.5060605@aitel.hist.no> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Outside the english-speaking world, userland _was_ completely (American) Formal UK English uses accented characters for some foreign imports (eg café), ï for words like naïve, and if you are really pretentious you need the æ symbol for words like mediæval although for modern writing this is considered silly. The bash problem btw should have been fixed (if it is bash causing it) as of 2.05b and readline 4.3. If its being cause by the KDE terminal that would suprise me but might be worth filing a bug. Alan