Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:17:06 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) |
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On Jan 8 2007 02:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Jan 7 2007 22:30, Alan wrote: >> >>> >The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8 >>> >>> I've seen a lot of places that don't do so. Want a patch? >> >>I think that would be a good idea - and add it to the coding/docs specs >>that documentation is UTF-8. Code should IMHO say 7bit though.
Most memorable issues:
* "don<decimal-180>t" (standalone accent aigu) rather than "don't" (apostrophe) * "<decimal-160>", non breaking spaces * cp437 encoding in some files (heh, heh, DOS!) * iso8859-1/utf-8 mixed in some files
My compose key is hot now...
None of you people screw that patch with your buggy MUAs! I'll pack it up into a .bz2 to get it marked as application/octet-stream to not even give your MUA the chance to. ;-) [and because it's 221 K uncompressed and I am not sure if splitting it up makes much sense for such 'trivial' changes, or not?]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
-`J' -- [unhandled content-type:application/x-bzip2]
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