Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932388AbVISJBJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:01:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932391AbVISJBI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:01:08 -0400 Received: from h80ad253d.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.61]:51343 "EHLO h80ad253d.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932388AbVISJBH (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:01:07 -0400 Message-Id: <200509190900.j8J90lXx001654@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: "\"Martin v. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=F6wis=22?=" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:26:22 +0200." <1127118382.1080.19.camel@tara.firmix.at> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <4Nvab-7o5-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <4Nvab-7o5-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NvjM-7CU-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NvjM-7CU-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NxbR-20S-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NEn7-3M5-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4NTvO-yJ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <4O1MJ-3Hf-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4O8Oh-5jp-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <432E448D.2080402@v.loewis.de> <1127118382.1080.19.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1127120446_2682P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 05:00:46 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1311 Lines: 43 --==_Exmh_1127120446_2682P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:26:22 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch said: > We will see how it develops. Actually the marker could be used to detec= t > endianness of the file if I read below URL correctly .... Text files have endianness???? > ---- snip ---- > Q: How I should deal with BOMs? > =5B...=5D > 3. Some byte oriented protocols expect ASCII characters at the beginnin= g > of a file. If UTF-8 is used with these protocols, use of the BOM as > encoding form signature should be avoided. > ---- snip ---- > Voila. Avoid the BOM in your scripts and be done. At which point the proposed kernel patch becomes pointless.. ;) --==_Exmh_1127120446_2682P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDLn4+cC3lWbTT17ARAipDAKC8beFmI9fu56qfDWpkS94Y9Ep76QCfczV3 Q33F+r8zh2Ic7QVOwtNu2SY= =xHuh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1127120446_2682P-- - 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/