linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:10:14 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

> Well, booting 2.6.25 with "init=/bin/bash" results in backspace
> eating the prompt after pressing accentuated letters. Even the

Did you put the bash shell and the console into unicode mode ?

> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode
> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not.

I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls
causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and
awkward programming interfaces.

> You know why we got this encoding ? Simply because it was designed by
> english speakers who did not want to be impacted at all by the transition.

Actually it was primarily designed to make moving encoding painless so
that ascii still worked and C properties like \0 plus traditional
Unixisms like "/" just worked.

> BTW, do you have an UTF-8 patch for the vt320 and vt510 I use as an
> always-on console on my servers ? Clearly, the system does not have to

screen supports the needed transliteration for you.

Alan
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