linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

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Message-ID: <20080429113214.GE19269@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:32:14 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:27:18PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> You miss my point.
> 
> The point is:
> A conversion "ASCII -> UTF-8" is a nop.
> 
> This means when changing the kernel from half a dozen charsets used in 
> comments to UTF-8 we only had to change the few characters actually 
> containing non UTF-8.

"containing non-ASCII"

> Going to something like UTF-32 as you suggest would have involved 
> converting every single file in the kernel.

cu
Adrian

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