Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:21:51 +0000
From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
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Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)
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> So, in short, UTF-8 is all fine and dandy if your _entire_ universe
> is UTF-8 enabled.  If you're operating in a mixed charset environment
> it's one bloody big pain in the butt.

Net ASCII is 7bit and is 1:1 mapped with UTF-8 unicode. It's just old
broken 8bit encodings that are problematic.

The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8
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