Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756376AbYAIAxh (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:53:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752310AbYAIAxO (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:53:14 -0500 Received: from mail.davidb.org ([66.93.32.219]:38788 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbYAIAxN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:53:13 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1995 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:53:13 EST Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:19:48 -0800 From: David Brown To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Andrew Morton , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Claim maintainership for block2mtd and update email addresses Message-ID: <20080109001948.GA16644@old.davidb.org> References: <20080106135600.GB3120@lazybastard.org> <20080107152300.2ed7cddb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080108010656.GA10627@lazybastard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 32 On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 12:23:24AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jörn Engel wrote: > >> I'm happy if people spend effort and make unicode work. Until then I'll >> semi-officially change my name to "Joern" and keep collecting unusual >> specimens. > >Just wondering - nothing personal at all. What's the official plan for >this - do we want (when utf8 works) to use utf8 codes for symbols only for >languages mostly based on ASCII, like iso-8859-15, or for all? UTF-8 already works fine in git. There is some support in recent versions to allow commit messages and users to be specified in other encodings. I think the issue here is with mailers modifying the encoding of data in message files. My reply header should be to Jörn, with a proper 'o' with two dots over it. By default, my mailer wants to encode the message in iso-8859-1. If I add a single unicode character, say '‣', then the whole message will get encoded in UTF-8. UTF-8 has the advantage of supporting nearly all character sets. The extra space needed isn't really an issue for usernames or for comment messages. Dave -- 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/