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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:09:11 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 
>> konsole works fine with UTF-8 (I use it 
>> that way every day); the most common cause of this kind of problems is 
>> people explicitly clobbering the locale or charset class defaults in 
>> their login scripts.
> 
> I really doubt the miss would have done this. Or someone would have done
> it for her which I really doubt in such a small time frame after a fresh
> install from the day before. I will investigate though.
> 

 From one of Alan's posts it sounds like there was a bug with multibyte 
characters in readline at some point that got fixed relatively quickly, 
but still made it out.

	-hpa
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