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Message-ID: <46406AAB.7050001@seclark.us>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 08:18:51 -0400
From: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>On 5/7/07, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:49:50 +0000
>>Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Mon 2007-05-07 16:10:53, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:04 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Can we stick to ascii in sources?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>No. Please join us in the 21st century.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should be us-ascii.
>>>utf-8 is ok for documentation.
>>>
>>>
>>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?
>
>
>
And while your at I think you should write all the comments and
documentation in your
native language as well ;-)
--
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
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