linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] utf8: Remove unused utf8

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Message-ID: <87tt4oyc1l.fsf@mailhost.krisman.be>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:01:26 -0400
From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@...sman.be>
To: linux@...blig.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utf8: Remove unused utf8_normalize

linux@...blig.org writes:

> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
>
> utf8_normalize() was added in 2019 as part of
> commit 9d53690f0d4e ("unicode: implement higher level API for string
> handling")
> but has remained unused.

FWIW, the original implementation made use of it, but the
normalization-only support was rightfully dropped before merging. Then,
there was an intention to enable it later but it never materialized.  It
clearly can go away.

> (I think because the other higher level routines added by that patch
> normalise as part of their operations)

Correct.

I'll queue it for next.

Thank you,

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi