From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alphabet of kernel source
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623215812.GD3072@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan>
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:06:28PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Anyhow, long story short, this got me thinking... What is the charset
> and the encoding of the actual source? I saw quite a discussion about
> the filenames, but this is different. I am sorry if this was discussed
> previously.
This has come up repeatedly. As far as I recall, Linus has never said
anything. The de facto situation can be seen by just inspecting the
MAINTAINERS file. Kai Makisara has a diaeresis on the first vowel of
his last name. Today (2.6.6) that is still coded in ISO 8859-1.
In old discussions people who disliked 8859-1 expressed strong preference
for plain ASCII (possibly with TeX-like escape sequences for non-ASCII).
These days it seems that, if anything is changed, the only reasonable action
would be to switch to UTF-8.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 21:06 Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-23 21:46 ` David Eger
2004-06-23 22:18 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-24 6:16 ` David Eger
2004-06-27 5:48 ` [PATCH] Translate Japanese comments in arch/v850 ( was: Alphabet of kernel source) Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-23 21:58 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-06-24 11:06 ` Alphabet of kernel source Richard B. Johnson
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