Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261640AbUCFLJE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:09:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261648AbUCFLJE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:09:04 -0500 Received: from AGrenoble-101-1-4-31.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr ([217.128.202.31]:55270 "EHLO awak.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261640AbUCFLJC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:09:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source From: Xavier Bestel To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20040304100503.GA13970@havoc.gtf.org> <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1078571331.963.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:08:52 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 20 Le sam 06/03/2004 ? 00:33, H. Peter Anvin a ?crit : > Followup to: <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org> > By author: David Eger > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings. > > These are almost always output to devfs or proc. The characters used are > > the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds). > > I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol. ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/