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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:19:31 -0800 From: David Brown <davidb@...idb.org> To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de> Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Claim maintainership for block2mtd and update email addresses On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:23:24AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jörn Engel wrote: > >> I'm happy if people spend effort and make unicode work. Until then I'll >> semi-officially change my name to "Joern" and keep collecting unusual >> specimens. > >Just wondering - nothing personal at all. What's the official plan for >this - do we want (when utf8 works) to use utf8 codes for symbols only for >languages mostly based on ASCII, like iso-8859-15, or for all? UTF-8 already works fine in git. There is some support in recent versions to allow commit messages and users to be specified in other encodings. I think the issue here is with mailers modifying the encoding of data in message files. My reply header should be to Jörn, with a proper 'o' with two dots over it. By default, my mailer wants to encode the message in iso-8859-1. If I add a single unicode character, say '‣', then the whole message will get encoded in UTF-8. UTF-8 has the advantage of supporting nearly all character sets. The extra space needed isn't really an issue for usernames or for comment messages. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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