Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:51:03 -0700 (MST) | From | Alex Belits <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source |
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, David Eger wrote:
> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.3-utf8-cleanup-auto.diff.bz2 > > Here you find the first of several patches to convert the kernel > source from ISO Latin-1 to UTF-8. I'm working on the files that didn't > auto-convert easily; comments welcome ;-) > > First, some statistics! > > In Linux 2.6.3, there are: > 15860 clean 7-bit ASCII files > 274 text files are not 7-bit clean > > 38 of these 274 files are not auto-convertible -- either they are not ISO > Latin-1 or the high octets appear within the actual code (not comments). > > This first patch applies to help files, documentation, and comments which > are trivially correct ISO Latin-1 => UTF-8 conversions. The work I have > left to do is summarized below.
That will be of a great help for the future developers that will edit kernel sources in Microsoft Word.
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