From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alphabet of kernel source
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406240700480.23948@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040623140628.3f1abfe9@lembas.zaitcev.lan>
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have a silly question, for which I am unable to google out the answer
> so far. Do we have a Linus' decree on the charset and encoding of the
> kernel source?
>
[SNIPPED...]
Good question! It was supposed to be ASCII which, I guess is
UTF-8 or something like that. However, I find that tabs, which
were decreed to be at 8-collumn intervals end up being used
instead of spaces i.e., one-column, etc. So, if you look at
some well-patched source you sometimes see a mess.
The names of contributors often have non-ASCII characters
in them. This may not be a problem, but when using `pine`
without the 'latest-and-greatest' version, they sometimes
are unreadable.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 11:06 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 ` Alphabet of kernel source Andries Brouwer
2004-06-24 11:06 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
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