Re: Alphabet of kernel source

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@ThinRope.net>]

David Eger wrote:
> I started a thread a while ago (2.6.3/2.6.4) where I submitted some
> patches to UTF-8ifying the kernel sources.  Basically, most of the
> kernel is ASCII (98.4% of the files).  The rest are mostly ISO-Latin-1,
> with the rare bit of Japanese (in a couple of charsets) and some just
> random bytes in some of the Documentation/...

The "problem" is contributor names, although having everything in plain ASCII is resonable, I guess.

> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-auto.diff
A lot of names and some art supposed to be ASCII.

> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-cstrings2utf8.diff
Some degree symbols and microseconds... and names.
I remember having problems with lm-sensors trying to print degrees, how did they fight the problem?

> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-jp.diff
Ok, this Japanese is only in the comments.
I can translate that in no time and fix this diff.
WTF is arch/v850/ ?
I guess you had some kind of script, can you try it on vanilla 2.6.7, plesae, and post results.

> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-wrong.diff
There are a few microseconds written properly, but may commonly by typed as us, or just don't use abbr.

> It's sorta difficult to do non-ASCII patches over email because
> the kernel developers like reading their mail in mutt, and don't 
> like attachments (the only sane ways to send non 7-bit clean data:
> 8-bit MIME: tagged and bagged or uuencoded)
> 
> Further, you confuse the hell out of vi if you have any trash (8bit data
> in another charset) in a file that's supposed to be UTF-8.  i.e. don't
> think you're going to be able to look at a charset changing patch in
> anything.
Totally agree, although I use Mozilla Mail (and sometimes mutt).

Kalin.

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