From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756681AbYD2BaX (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:30:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752696AbYD2BaB (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:30:01 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42536 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751134AbYD2B37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:29:59 -0400 Message-ID: <48167A07.4000305@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments References: <20080428154023.GU2813@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20080428230524.GK8474@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Willy Tarreau wrote: > Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not > everyone reads UTF-8. "Everyone" who speaks a Western European language, perhaps; and even then, mostly because a lot of tools still have a "oh, it's not valid UTF-8, guess iso-8859-1" mode. The most common instance of non-ASCII characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1. The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII character set unless impossible. -hpa