Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161202AbXAHKYf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:24:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161204AbXAHKYf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:24:35 -0500 Received: from mx.laposte.net ([81.255.54.11]:9770 "EHLO mx.laposte.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161202AbXAHKYf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <6575.192.54.193.51.1168251859.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:24:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) From: "Nicolas Mailhot" To: "Willy Tarreau" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-2.fc6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 20 >> How would you do this technically in a way that it's significantely >> easier than simply finishing the UTF=8 transition? > In how many decades do you think the transition will be finished ? Right now it looks like it will be finished way earlier than app bother supporting the later 8-bit encodings such as iso-8859-15 (case in point: Russel's system. I was ROTFL when he proudly announced he was running a full iso-8859-1 system after dissing UTF-8. Last I've seen the official 8bit EU encoding was iso-8859-15, and UK is part of the EU) -- Nicolas Mailhot - 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/