Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967043AbXEGV6X (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:58:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966976AbXEGV6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:58:19 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54383 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966685AbXEGV6S (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 17:58:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 23:02:07 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Dmitry Torokhov" Cc: "Pavel Machek" , "David Woodhouse" , "Anton Vorontsov" , "Greg KH" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver Message-ID: <20070507230207.2a74e769@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070503213303.GH20067@zarina> <20070507140453.GD3868@ucw.cz> <1178550653.11851.191.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070507194949.GB3981@ucw.cz> <20070507222311.4589fc8a@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 16 > > We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should use utf-8 for > > comments where neccessary. Many names cannot be correctly represented in > > US ascii, and mangling them is just plain rude. > > So should we all start writing our names in native alphabets? And comments too? Well we do have comments in several languages already but I was only suggesting names as the comment texts do provide useful info and need to be readable. Alan - 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/