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

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Message-Id: <200701081953.l08JrANJ031784@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:53:10 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	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)

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:38:57 +0100, Willy Tarreau said:
> it's clearly the proof of a flaw in the initial design. And I'm not even
> discussing the stupidity which requires that you read a whole text to get
> its number of characters !

It's no more stupid than the *current* situation with Linux kernel code, where
the stupidity actually requires that even if you know that there are only 60
characters on a given line, you actually have to look at each one in order to
figure out if the line goes past column 80....


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