Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264256AbUFXLG7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264262AbUFXLG7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:59 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:14983 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264256AbUFXLG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Pete Zaitcev cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alphabet of kernel source In-Reply-To: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan> Message-ID: References: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 32 On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > 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? > [SNIPPED...] Good question! It was supposed to be ASCII which, I guess is UTF-8 or something like that. However, I find that tabs, which were decreed to be at 8-collumn intervals end up being used instead of spaces i.e., one-column, etc. So, if you look at some well-patched source you sometimes see a mess. The names of contributors often have non-ASCII characters in them. This may not be a problem, but when using `pine` without the 'latest-and-greatest' version, they sometimes are unreadable. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/