From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:06:00 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] bmp_logo: Check return value of fread() In-Reply-To: <200904280858.58163.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:58:56 -0400") References: <1240606796-32127-1-git-send-email-ptyser@xes-inc.com> <20090428052141.D6E5A83420E8@gemini.denx.de> <200904280858.58163.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Mike, > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 05:11:01 Detlev Zundel wrote: >> Hi Wolfgang, >> >> >> The copies cc-ed to myself come through just fine as utf-8 fwiw. Does >> >> that imply the denx.de servers convert unicode messages to base64? >> > >> > This is in the headers of your message: >> > >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> > >> > I don't think anything converted anything. It arrived as you sent it. >> > >> > You just don't see it. >> > >> > The problem for me is that I cannot use standard tools (like grep) on >> > such messages. >> >> Isn't it possible that you un-base64 such mails locally in your mail >> system? In the long run I'd really like to be able to handle Unicode in >> U-Boot (sources) and thus also on the mailing list. >> >> It is the 2000s after all with people from all over the world >> contributing to U-Boot and we're limiting ourselves to the english >> typographic letters :( > > i dont think we want localized comments/output without an english equivalent. > i.e. if someone proposed an optional gettext() kind of thing so the output of > u-boot were localized, that may make sense. Note that I explicitely hinted at the source code. > mixing language comments makes it kind of hard for people to coordinate/review > things as then they'd be required to know multiple languages. atm, english is > the only thing required (well, and coding ability of course). I wasn't even thinking about language comments but simply names especially in git-commit messages. Obviously I'm lucky that I don't have an umlaut in my name, but if I had, what would I do? Resort to latin-1? What about French, Russian, etc. developers who want to see their "real" name in the logs? Cheers Detlev -- Of course my password is the same as my pet's name My macaw's name was Q47pY!3 and I change it every 90 days -- Trevor Linton -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de