Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> Well, booting 2.6.25 with "init=/bin/bash" results in backspace
> eating the prompt after pressing accentuated letters. Even the

Did you put the bash shell and the console into unicode mode ?

> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode
> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not.

I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls
causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and
awkward programming interfaces.

> You know why we got this encoding ? Simply because it was designed by
> english speakers who did not want to be impacted at all by the transition.

Actually it was primarily designed to make moving encoding painless so
that ascii still worked and C properties like \0 plus traditional
Unixisms like "/" just worked.

> BTW, do you have an UTF-8 patch for the vt320 and vt510 I use as an
> always-on console on my servers ? Clearly, the system does not have to

screen supports the needed transliteration for you.

Alan
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