Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: matthew-lkml@newtoncomputing.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:17:44 +0100
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On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 16:49 +0100, matthew-lkml@newtoncomputing.co.uk
wrote:
> Please forgive me if I'm wrong on this, but I seem to remember reading
> something a while ago indicating that the kernel is and always will be
> internally English (i.e. debugging messages and the like) as there is no
> need to bloat it with many different languages (that can be done in
> userspace). As printk is really just a log system, I personally don't
> see any way that it should ever print anything other than ASCII.

It's very naïve of you to think that English means nothing but ASCII.
Non-ASCII characters play a very important rôle even in English
communication.

-- 
dwmw2

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