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Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:14:27 +0100
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Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:

> Le sam 06/03/2004 ? 00:33, H. Peter Anvin a ?crit :
>> Followup to:  <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org>
>> By author:    David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org>
>> 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.

The 7-bit ones are the same.  The 8-bit ones are all different.

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