linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 08:11:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Pekka Pietikainen <pp@...oulu.fi>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On May 15 2007 23:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
>>> Since everyone else is doing it, why not me as well. Looks like I had
>>> a nice retro 7-bit a-umlaut in the tree from ten years ago too! 
>>> (That was back when ISO 8859-1 didn't work universally...).
>>> I hope my mailer is setup correctly for this, 
>>> http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/pp-goes-utf8.patch has the same in 
>>> case something in the middle munges up the utf-8.
>> Your message came through tagged as iso-8859-1.
> 
> Which perhaps is best, because UTF-8 is 'valid' ISO-8859-1 afaict,
> while the reverse is not true.

NAK.  The vast majority of UTF-8 is *not* valid ISO-8859-1.  These kinds
of patches really should be sent as binary attachments (although not
necessarily *compressed* such, and 8-bit encoding would be better than
base64, but that seems to be a lot to ask from an MUA.)

	-hpa
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