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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Non-ASCII chars in visor.c messages
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:50:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030722125039.GA2310@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030722143821.C26218@fi.muni.cz>

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:38:21PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> what is the general opinion on printing non-ASCII characters in kernel
> messages? I think kernel should print either pure ASCII messages, or
> at least UTF-8-encoded ones.

"pure ASCII"?  Heh, that's the first time I've heard that.

> 	The visor.c module contains three messages
> with non-ASCII character ("e" with acute above, encoded in
> ISO 8859-1, in the name of "Sony Clie'" handheld). I propose the attached
> patch, which works in all environments (altough UTF-8 variant would be
> IMHO fine as well).
> 
> 	What do you think about it?

I don't think it's really needed.  Why change this, syslog can't handle
this?  It works for me...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22 12:38 Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 12:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-07-22 13:09   ` Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 13:18     ` Greg KH
2003-07-22 14:03       ` Jan Kasprzak
2003-07-22 14:16   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:16   ` Pavel Machek

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