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SubjectRe: [PATCH] It's UTF-8
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On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
>
> I'd say ACK. However,
>
> > iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to
> > ASCII. The default is to do no conversion. Use
> >- iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations. This requires
> >+ iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations. This requires
> > CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file.
>
> If you are really nitpicky about the "-", then it should also be
> "iocharset=utf-8" (and whereever else). Or what's the real purpose of
> adding the dashes in only half of the places, then?

Also what's "Unicode 16" as used in several places in the kernel. Surely this
should be changed to UTF-16, which is the _encoding_ for the unicode
character space.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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