Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964963AbVIOTVI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:21:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965028AbVIOTVI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:21:08 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:30685 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964963AbVIOTVH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:21:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4329C992.7030300@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:20:50 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts References: <4B2ZV-2dl-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4HKbZ-Cx-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <4329BC43.7030406@v.loewis.de> <4329BCAB.1090106@zytor.com> <4329BFDC.70600@v.loewis.de> In-Reply-To: <4329BFDC.70600@v.loewis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 22 Martin v. L?wis wrote: > > We can do that now, or in five or ten years. I'm willing to wait that > long, but I'm certain that more people will find the UTF-8 signature > useful over time. It's the only sane way to get non-ASCII into script > source in a consistent way. > No. The sane way is to just use UTF-8. In five or ten years, by the time you've gotten your idiotic BOM mess to sort-of work, it will be completely pointless to have anything *but* UTF-8, and thus it's pointless. Don't perpetuate the braindamage. -hpa - 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/