linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4

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Message-ID: <20070107114439.GC21613@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:44:39 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:56:01AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 6 2007 22:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> >Leonard NorrgÃ¥rd (1):
> >      sound: hda: detect ALC883 on MSI K9A Platinum motherboards (MS-7280)
> 
> Something seems to have mangled the name, that should have
> been an å not A¥. (Something reencoded it). A gitlog problem?

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¥.

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

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:
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