linux-kernel - OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

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Message-ID: <45A0F060.9090207@imap.cc>
Date:	Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:06:40 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

Russell King schrieb:
[Leonard NorrgÃ¥rd (1):]
> That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8.  However, Linus
> sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8
> encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.

Only if the mechanism used for placing it there ignores the different
encodings.

> Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.

The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same
platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode.
I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977
when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was
the first time.

Tilman

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