Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751103AbVIQNFa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751104AbVIQNFa (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:30 -0400 Received: from albireo.ucw.cz ([84.242.65.108]:14477 "EHLO albireo.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbVIQNF3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:05:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:05:29 +0200 From: Martin Mares To: =?iso-8859-2?B?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBM9ndpcyI=?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts Message-ID: <20050917130529.GA4398@ucw.cz> References: <4NsP1-3YF-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NsOZ-3YF-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NsYH-4bv-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NtBr-4WU-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NtL0-5lQ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <432B2C49.8080008@v.loewis.de> <20050917120123.GA3095@ucw.cz> <432C0B51.704@v.loewis.de> <20050917122828.GA4103@ucw.cz> <432C11B3.8080302@v.loewis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432C11B3.8080302@v.loewis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 34 Hello! > With the UTF-8 signature, things become much simpler: editors can > automatically detect presence of the signature, and need no > language-specific parsing. I still think that this does solve only a completely insignificant part of the problem. Given the zillion existing encodings, you are able to identify UTF-8, leaving you with zillion-1 other encodings you are unable to deal with. > Probably not literally, as we are not searching for an explanation of > some phenomenon. ACK, not literally. > You are probably suggesting that people dislike the > feature because they see no need for it (as one poster stated it: > I don't use UTF-8, so I don't want that feature). I see a need for a feature which would help identify the charset of the script, but the patch in question obviously doesn't offer that -- it solves only a single special case of the problem in a completely non-systematic way. This does not sound right. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the tough chapters involving quantum mechanics!" = \pi - 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/