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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:33:00 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>> Funny that you mention Windows. Windows has been using 16-bit unicode
>> for a long time without problems. It's a clean encoding. Like it or not.
> 
> I would describe the UCS-2 situation as a disaster area - embedded nuls
> causing breakage, inability to represent the full unicode space and
> awkward programming interfaces.
> 

Not to mention the fact that UCS-2 ran out of code points almost as soon 
as they said "no more codepoints."  The result was UTF-16, a hideous 
abortion which took all the problems with wide encodings, combined it 
with all the problems of multibyte encodings, and added a few new ones 
for good measure.

	-hpa
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