Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:49:03 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:30 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <1078571331.963.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> > By author: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> > > ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8. > > > > Unicode, yes. UTF-8, no. The ISO-8859-1 character "Å" (0xC5) does, > indeed correspond to Unicode character U+00C5, but it's encoded 0xC3 > 0x85 in UTF-8.
Yeah, that's what I realized, after posting of course. While utf-8ying the sources is certainly a good thing, I have mixed feelings about kernel strings. It will render poorly in some environments. Maybe the all-ascii route is better for strings ?
Xav
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