Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266675AbUFWVHf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:07:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266674AbUFWVHe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:07:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45208 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266675AbUFWVGa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:06:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:06:28 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com Subject: Alphabet of kernel source Message-Id: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1473 Lines: 30 Guys, I have a silly question, for which I am unable to google out the answer so far. Do we have a Linus' decree on the charset and encoding of the kernel source? I had a funny situation recently... I prefer non-MIME attachements for two reasons: a) I grab parts of the header and fold them into patch and b) it is easier to quote fragments of the patch with clients I tried (mutt and sylpheed). Admittendly, a different MUA software may change these habits, but please bear with me here. So, someone sent me a patch which included a context line with MODULE_AUTHOR() with an accented name, which the author entered in ISO-8859-1 (he was German). I replied, but my mail agent recoded the reply as UTF-8. The author agreed to my patch, and copied my reply, sent to me. Everything was perfectly readable at this point, but the patch rejected. Because I use Russian and Japanese simultaneously, all utilities run with UTF-8 my boxes, so it took me a moment to do "LANG=C vi" and find the problem. Anyhow, long story short, this got me thinking... What is the charset and the encoding of the actual source? I saw quite a discussion about the filenames, but this is different. I am sorry if this was discussed previously. -- Pete - 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/