Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761499AbXEPPOb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761120AbXEPPOV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:14:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:50490 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761085AbXEPPOU (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:14:20 -0400 Message-ID: <464B1F3E.1020200@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:11:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Pekka Pietikainen , Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List , trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 References: <4647A52A.8000709@post.pl> <4647A868.4070201@post.pl> <46486EAE.3060009@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070514202509.GA1515@stusta.de> <20070514204107.GB1515@stusta.de> <20070515162314.GA10965@ee.oulu.fi> <464A9F2E.5020801@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 25 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 15 2007 23:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Pekka Pietikainen wrote: >>> Since everyone else is doing it, why not me as well. Looks like I had >>> a nice retro 7-bit a-umlaut in the tree from ten years ago too! >>> (That was back when ISO 8859-1 didn't work universally...). >>> I hope my mailer is setup correctly for this, >>> http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/pp-goes-utf8.patch has the same in >>> case something in the middle munges up the utf-8. >> Your message came through tagged as iso-8859-1. > > Which perhaps is best, because UTF-8 is 'valid' ISO-8859-1 afaict, > while the reverse is not true. NAK. The vast majority of UTF-8 is *not* valid ISO-8859-1. These kinds of patches really should be sent as binary attachments (although not necessarily *compressed* such, and 8-bit encoding would be better than base64, but that seems to be a lot to ask from an MUA.) -hpa - 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/