Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
>
> I'd say ACK. However,
>
> > iocharset=name	Character set to use for converting from Unicode to
> > 		ASCII.  The default is to do no conversion.  Use
> >-		iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations.  This requires
> >+		iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations.  This requires
> > 		CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file.
>
> If you are really nitpicky about the "-", then it should also be
> "iocharset=utf-8" (and whereever else). Or what's the real purpose of
> adding the dashes in only half of the places, then?

Also what's "Unicode 16" as used in several places in the kernel. Surely this 
should be changed to UTF-16, which is the _encoding_ for the unicode 
character space.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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