Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:32:14 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:27:18PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > You miss my point. > > The point is: > A conversion "ASCII -> UTF-8" is a nop. > > This means when changing the kernel from half a dozen charsets used in > comments to UTF-8 we only had to change the few characters actually > containing non UTF-8.
"containing non-ASCII"
> Going to something like UTF-32 as you suggest would have involved > converting every single file in the kernel.
cu Adrian
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