Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

Nick Piggin
2004-02-17T07:42:41Z

Marc Lehmann wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:48:19PM +0000, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
>
>>Quote from Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>:
>>None of this is a real problem, if everything is set up correctly and
>>bug free. Unfortunately the Just Works thing falls apart in the,
>>(frequent), instances that it's not :-(.
>>
>
>And this is the whole point.
>
>BTW, to people trying to explain some properties of UTF-8 to me. I don't
>think ad-hominem attacks like assuming that I don't understand UTF-8
>(without any indication that this is so) are useful.
>
>The point here is that the kernel does, in a very narrow interpretation,
>not support the use of UTF-8, because proper support of UTF-8 means that
>no illegal byte sequences will be produced.
>
>

So does the kernel support the English language? Does your
email client?