From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:06:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A0F060.9090207@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070107114439.GC21613@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King schrieb:
[Leonard Norrgård (1):]
> That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8. However, Linus
> sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8
> encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.
Only if the mechanism used for placing it there ignores the different
encodings.
> Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.
The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same
platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode.
I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977
when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was
the first time.
Tilman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-07 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-07 6:19 Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2007-01-07 10:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 11:44 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 13:06 ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2007-01-07 15:13 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) David Woodhouse
2007-01-07 15:38 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-07 17:06 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 19:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:20 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 20:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 23:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-08 1:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-08 1:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 6:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 8:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:32 ` OT: character encodings Tilman Schmidt
2007-01-08 1:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 19:53 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-07 19:29 ` OT: character encodings Tilman Schmidt
2007-01-07 18:21 ` OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Alan
2007-01-07 19:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 22:30 ` Alan
2007-01-08 1:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 20:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 22:00 ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-08 23:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-08 23:34 ` Eberhard Moenkeberg
2007-01-08 16:14 ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-08 22:17 ` Tim Pepper
2007-01-08 23:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 19:17 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 19:58 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-07 20:05 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-07 20:15 ` Sean
2007-01-07 20:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-07 21:07 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-01-08 4:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-08 1:40 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-07 13:23 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Alan
2007-01-07 12:15 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 12:55 ` Russell King
2007-01-07 13:38 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 13:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-07 14:23 ` Akula2
2007-01-07 20:57 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-07 21:04 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 15:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-01-07 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-08 1:00 ` David Miller
2007-01-08 6:38 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 20:49 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 21:52 ` David Miller
2007-01-08 22:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-08 23:02 ` Peter Osterlund
2007-01-08 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 3:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 7:39 ` David Miller
2007-01-07 21:22 ` Gene Heskett
2007-01-08 0:22 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 1:20 ` Bernhard Schmidt
2007-01-08 0:25 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches available Adrian Bunk
2007-01-08 0:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-08 14:50 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc4 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 14:58 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-08 15:03 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-01-08 19:11 ` Jean Delvare
2007-01-09 0:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 0:56 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 2:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:04 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 7:04 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 9:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:14 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-01-09 7:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-09 9:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 9:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-09 7:18 ` Greg KH
2007-01-09 5:25 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-09 18:08 ` Malte Schröder
2007-01-09 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 0:24 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2007-01-11 1:00 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 13:12 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2007-01-11 23:53 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-09 20:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-09 5:51 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 5:10 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 8:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 10:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-01-11 10:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 11:08 ` CIJOML
2007-01-11 5:13 ` 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3) Adrian Bunk
2007-01-11 21:39 ` David Chinner
2007-01-11 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11 23:05 ` David Chinner
2007-01-08 10:13 OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) Nicolas Mailhot
2007-01-08 10:24 Nicolas Mailhot
2007-01-08 10:44 ` Alan
2007-01-08 10:44 ` Nicolas Mailhot
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