From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:33:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2b2o0$cbp$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org
Followup to: <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org>
By author: David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings.
> These are almost always output to devfs or proc. The characters used are
> the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds).
> I do not want to make a value judgement on what the kernel outputs
> to userspace, so I leave the strings the same. However, C99 makes it
> implementation defined how the source character set is translated to
> the character set in the compiled binary... Therefore, I've taken the
> raw octets and converted them in the source file to octal constants in
> the strings, just to make sure cc doesn't mangle things if you set your
> locale differently...
>
I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol.
Plain ASCII would be better, though.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-05 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-04 10:05 [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source David Eger
2004-03-04 10:19 ` Meelis Roos
2004-03-04 10:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-04 21:51 ` Alex Belits
2004-03-05 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-05 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-05 21:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-05 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-05 21:17 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-05 21:26 ` Charles Cazabon
2004-03-05 21:20 ` David Eger
2004-03-05 23:24 ` David Eger
2004-03-05 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-06 11:08 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-03-06 11:14 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-09 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-09 9:49 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-03-06 13:33 ` Other bizarre thing... backspaces? David Eger
2004-03-06 14:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-14 16:25 ` Petr Baudis
2004-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source Geert Uytterhoeven
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2004-03-05 13:21 paolo ciarrocchi
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