Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

>On 5/7/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:49:50 +0000
>>Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
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>>>On Mon 2007-05-07 16:10:53, David Woodhouse wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:04 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>>>>Can we stick to ascii in sources?
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>>>>No. Please join us in the 21st century.
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>>>We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should be us-ascii.
>>>utf-8 is ok for documentation.
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>>We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should use utf-8 for
>>comments where neccessary. Many names cannot be correctly represented in
>>US ascii, and mangling them is just plain rude.
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>So should we all start writing our names in native alphabets? And comments too?
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And while your at I think you should write all the comments and 
documentation in your
native language as well ;-)


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