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

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Message-ID: <20070107182151.7cc544f3@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:21:51 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

> So, in short, UTF-8 is all fine and dandy if your _entire_ universe
> is UTF-8 enabled.  If you're operating in a mixed charset environment
> it's one bloody big pain in the butt.

Net ASCII is 7bit and is 1:1 mapped with UTF-8 unicode. It's just old
broken 8bit encodings that are problematic.

The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8
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