linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:35:24 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Egmont Koblinger <egmont@...linux.hu>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:58:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Not leaving dead code in the kernel is long-standing policy; it's 
>> nothing new.  We constantly remove #if 0'd code that the authors have 
>> left in.
> 
> I see. However, you wrote it recently:
> 
>> Besides, would it not make more sense to have a single table with the
>> width information, if you insist on having one, instead of multiple ones?
> 
> If I rework the code according to this then the zero-width information will
> no longer be dead code, right? The unchanged kernel would be slightly larger
> and would run slightly slower, but it would be much easier to patch it to
> reach the other possible behavior regarding combining characters.
> 

Yes, I didn't realize at the time that that was dead code.

	-hpa
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