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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
    On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:21:16PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > Hi!
    >
    > > > > > And how about serial terminals?
    > > > >
    > > > > It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?
    > > >
    > > > He probably means serial terminals... like physical vt100. I used to
    > > > have one (vt302 compatible or something). Most emulators still
    > > > emulate vt100, and yes, vt100 predates utf-8.
    > >
    > > I have a serial terminal which can only do lower case (well, actually
    > > capitals but it's all mapped to lower case since that's more useful).
    > >
    > > When I write code on it, I can't do capital letters. But do I try to
    > > _force_ you to use only capitals because of my limited terminal?
    >
    > If I wrote int j, J; in my code, you'd have valid case wanting me to
    > fix it. And I simply want you to fix useless uses of utf-8. And evil
    > uses utf8, like int voltage; /* ??V */. I do not know what is so hard
    > to understand.
    >
    > You are intentionally making code hard to read. Stop trying to merge
    > that crap.

    It was °C, and that's IMHO better readable than some kind of "degrees C".

    Only using 7bit ASCII might have been a good advice in the last
    millenium. But in the current millenium, most environments handle UTF-8
    just fine.

    And we are only talking about documentation and comments - IOW, things
    not visible for someone running a kernel. Code (including printk's) must
    stay 7bit ASCII.

    In the worst case, if you managed to find a not UTF-8 capable
    environment for viewing the kernel sources, the few characters that are
    not 7bit ASCII are displayed incorrectly, and you'll have to guess which
    character someone might place in front of a "C" describing something
    named wBAT_TEMP (you will likely guess it correctly).

    And it's nothing new, comments containing non 7bit ASCII characters are
    already present in 10 year old kernels (often, but not limited to,
    developer's names).

    > Pavel

    cu
    Adrian

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