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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Replace the extended ASCII copyright char to normal ASCII sequence
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:00:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100123090005.GA3897@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100122102541.GA21430@xhl>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:25:41PM +0800, Li Hong wrote:

> A copyright extended ASCII char (0xa9) in kernel/perf_event.c makes my utf-8
> compatible vim think it is a binary file. It is better to either use a utf-8
> sequence 0xc20xa9 or just normal copyright ASCII chars '(C)'.

The trouble is, I've been informed that "(C)" has no legal meaning --
it is not equivalent to the C-in-a-circle copyright symbol.  That's
why I put the extended ASCII character in there.  I wouldn't mind the
utf-8 sequence instead though.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-23  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22 10:25 [PATCH] perf: Replace the extended ASCII copyright char to normal ASCII sequence Li Hong
2010-01-23  9:00 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2010-01-23 18:44   ` Steve McKay

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