Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source | Date | Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:32:03 +0100 |
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Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> writes:
> DE> Here you find the first of several patches to convert the kernel > DE> source from ISO Latin-1 to UTF-8. I'm working on the files that didn't > DE> auto-convert easily; comments welcome ;-) > > Why? It's just easier to use plain 8-bit text files today (with editors, > code tools etc) and accept the limitations of it that to overcome the > limitations by forcing people to UTF-8 editors & other tools.
How do you propose that editors should know which encoding a file uses? The trend seems to be moving towards UTF-8 for everything, so the kernel might as well do it too.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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