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

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:43 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not
> everyone reads UTF-8.

"Everyone" who speaks a Western European language, perhaps; and even 
then, mostly because a lot of tools still have a "oh, it's not valid 
UTF-8, guess iso-8859-1" mode.  The most common instance of non-ASCII 
characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty 
of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1.

The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to 
UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII 
character set unless impossible.

	-hpa

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