Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751100AbXAHTzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:55:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750997AbXAHTzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:55:04 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42100 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751100AbXAHTzB (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:55:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200701081953.l08JrANJ031784@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jan Engelhardt , Russell King , David Woodhouse , Tilman Schmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:38:57 +0100." <20070108003857.GE435@1wt.eu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20070107114439.GC21613@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <45A0F060.9090207@imap.cc> <1168182838.14763.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070107153833.GA21133@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1168187346.14763.70.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070107170656.GC21133@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070107204834.GU24090@1wt.eu> <20070107233750.GL20714@stusta.de> <20070108003857.GE435@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1168285990_27349P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:53:10 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 32 --==_Exmh_1168285990_27349P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:38:57 +0100, Willy Tarreau said: > it's clearly the proof of a flaw in the initial design. And I'm not even > discussing the stupidity which requires that you read a whole text to get > its number of characters ! It's no more stupid than the *current* situation with Linux kernel code, where the stupidity actually requires that even if you know that there are only 60 characters on a given line, you actually have to look at each one in order to figure out if the line goes past column 80.... --==_Exmh_1168285990_27349P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFFoqEmcC3lWbTT17ARAsOoAKCLgFBrqJtxDRKwP6JKpzsCQ+Z3wwCg85sw HDs+Vq3rpLHHU9vibEkUejw= =MLBN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1168285990_27349P-- - 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/