Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:19:37 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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matthew-lkml@newtoncomputing.co.uk said: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:18:24PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> > Please don't do that -- it makes printing UTF-8 impossible. While I'd > > not argue that now is the time to start outputting UTF-8 all over the > > place, I wouldn't accept that it's a good time to _prevent_ it either, > > as your patch would do.
> Please forgive me if I'm wrong on this, but I seem to remember reading > something a while ago indicating that the kernel is and always will be > internally English (i.e. debugging messages and the like) as there is no > need to bloat it with many different languages (that can be done in > userspace). As printk is really just a log system, I personally don't > see any way that it should ever print anything other than ASCII.
Messages including user-level stuff (file names, ...) could very well be UTF-8. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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