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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:05:25 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:40:23PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch converts some non-UTF-8 encoded text in comments to UTF-8. Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not everyone reads UTF-8. Now I get random crappy chars which cripple my xterms when reading such comments, and I have to do a full-reset once I've read them. It's not as if it was *that* important, and to be honnest, if you had not sent this patch, I would not even have known that non-ASCII characters were here. However, it will quickly get annoying if a recursive grep returns those pesky codes on non-compatible consoles... Quite frankly, it does not bring anything beyond trouble. I'm not adding a NAK here because I find this rude, but I don't like the orientation we're taking with the sources. We should not force people to install version X or Y of a particular system just to read sources. In fact, I would have better converted accentuated chars to their ASCII equivalent to be more friendly with people who only read 7-bit. Regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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