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

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:05 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...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 12:31:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >
> >Well, I accidentally used a freshly installed laptop running mandriva 2008.
> >I was typing in a terminal inside KDE (I don't know the program name, sort
> >of an xterm, but with huge borders all around). I made a typo in a word and
> >typed in a "é" (e acute). Pressing backspace to fix it showed me that I
> >remove more chars than typed. I tried again. Pressing this letter 5 times,
> >then 10 times backspace. I removed 5 chars from the prompt. I suspect that
> >if I had used some chars with wider encoding (eg 4 bytes), I could have
> >removed as many... Clearly those tools are not ready.
> >
> 
> Presumably, this was konsole.

Possible. It was the one you get by clicking on a terminal icon.
Huuhhh what an horror, I'm discussing icons and GUIs on LKML. I must
take my meds :-)

> konsole works fine with UTF-8 (I use it 
> that way every day); the most common cause of this kind of problems is 
> people explicitly clobbering the locale or charset class defaults in 
> their login scripts.

I really doubt the miss would have done this. Or someone would have done
it for her which I really doubt in such a small time frame after a fresh
install from the day before. I will investigate though.

Willy

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