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Message-ID: <20070507230207.2a74e769@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 23:02:07 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Anton Vorontsov" <cbou@...l.ru>, "Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

> > We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should use utf-8 for
> > comments where neccessary. Many names cannot be correctly represented in
> > US ascii, and mangling them is just plain rude.
> 
> So should we all start writing our names in native alphabets? And comments too?

Well we do have comments in several languages already but I was only
suggesting names as the comment texts do provide useful info and need to
be readable.

Alan
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