Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751090AbVIQM22 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:28:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751093AbVIQM22 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:28:28 -0400 Received: from albireo.ucw.cz ([84.242.65.108]:25014 "EHLO albireo.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751090AbVIQM22 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:28:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:28:28 +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: <20050917122828.GA4103@ucw.cz> References: <4NsP0-3YF-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NsP1-3YF-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432C0B51.704@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: 1035 Lines: 26 Hello! > I'm not (only) talking about /bin/sh. I'm primarily talking about > /usr/bin/python, /usr/bin/perl, and /usr/bin/wish. In all these > languages, the interpreter *does* care about the encoding. Agreed. On the other hand, in all these languages you can pass the encoding as a parameter to the interpreter, cannot you? > In the future, the signature *will* carry no information. But the future > is, well, in the future. > > I just can't understand why (some) people are so opposed to this patch. Occam's razor? 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 "In accord to UNIX philosophy, PERL gives you enough rope to hang yourself." -- Larry Wall - 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/