From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262130AbUBRDMI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:12:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262425AbUBRDMI (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:12:08 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:48520 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262130AbUBRDMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:12:06 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API (was: Re: JFS default behavior) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20040217195348.GQ8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200402172035.i1HKZM4j000154@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1077073892 4274 63.209.29.3 (18 Feb 2004 03:11:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 03:11:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: Linus Torvalds In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > UCS-4 is as braindamaged as UCS-2 was, and for all the same reasons. > > It's bloated, non-expandable, and not backwards compatible. > UCS-4 is actually a very nice format for *internal processing*. For data interchange, it sucks eggs. UCS-2 is historic. It's successor, UTF-16, is one of the worst horrors ever inflicted on mankind by Microsoft. -hpa