Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261300AbUFWWB5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:01:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261236AbUFWWBL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:01:11 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:2314 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261300AbUFWV6Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:58:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:12 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Pete Zaitcev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alphabet of kernel source Message-ID: <20040623215812.GD3072@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-DCC: : Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:06:28PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > 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. This has come up repeatedly. As far as I recall, Linus has never said anything. The de facto situation can be seen by just inspecting the MAINTAINERS file. Kai Makisara has a diaeresis on the first vowel of his last name. Today (2.6.6) that is still coded in ISO 8859-1. In old discussions people who disliked 8859-1 expressed strong preference for plain ASCII (possibly with TeX-like escape sequences for non-ASCII). These days it seems that, if anything is changed, the only reasonable action would be to switch to UTF-8. Andries - 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/