Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757045AbXEIOXk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:23:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754370AbXEIOXb (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:23:31 -0400 Received: from pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.7]:3685 "EHLO pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753388AbXEIOXa (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:23:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:23:22 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: David Woodhouse cc: Satyam Sharma , Pavel Machek , 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 In-Reply-To: <1178646751.2824.48.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20070503213303.GH20067@zarina> <20070507140453.GD3868@ucw.cz> <1178550653.11851.191.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070507194949.GB3981@ucw.cz> <1178646751.2824.48.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 28 On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > It's not an issue which needs resolving. We can spell your name just > fine; we just need Pavel to quit whining and join us in the 21st > century. I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of systems out there? Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text correctly? What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 characters? And how about serial terminals? When such issues are resolved and a reasonable subset of people, say 80%, either have or can make -- without unnecessary hassle -- their systems working properly in this respect, I can start thinking about using the correct spelling of my name. Until then I would rather work on code, sorry. And that is not going to be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-) Maciej - 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/