Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161268AbVIPS5i (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:57:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161267AbVIPS5i (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:57:38 -0400 Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]:50561 "EHLO mail-in-09.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161266AbVIPS5h (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:57:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:57:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts In-Reply-To: <432B0A47.7060909@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <4N6EL-4Hq-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EL-4Hq-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EK-4Hq-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6EX-4Hq-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N6Ox-4Ts-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <4N7AS-67L-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <432B0A47.7060909@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@web.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 24 On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > > What's supposed to happen if you concatenate a script from your french > > user and from your russian user, both using localized text, into one file? > > Unless you can guarantee every editor to correctly handle this case, all > > usage of 8-bit-characters should be disabled - NOT! > > Actually, it's quite easy to avoid problems by using UTF-8 consistently. > The 8-bit characters are oddballs and need to be treated specially, > but look, guys, it's 2005 - UTF-8 should be the norm, not the exception. It should, but as long as old programs are still around, we'll have both and need a marker to distinguish them. Otherwise we'll be stuck with legacy scripts for a long time. -- I'm a member of DNA (National Assocciation of Dyslexics). -- Storm in <5Z4Z7.52353$4x4.6445347@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> - 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/