Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:30 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <1078571331.963.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
> By author:    Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
> > ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8.
> > 
> 
> Unicode, yes.  UTF-8, no.  The ISO-8859-1 character "?" (0xC5) does,
> indeed correspond to Unicode character U+00C5, but it's encoded 0xC3
> 0x85 in UTF-8.

Yeah, that's what I realized, after posting of course.
While utf-8ying the sources is certainly a good thing, I have mixed
feelings about kernel strings. It will render poorly in some
environments.
Maybe the all-ascii route is better for strings ?

	Xav

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