From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:09:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xace69xtn.fsf@ford.inprovide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601082245090.17804@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> writes:
>>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?
The patch only changes documentation/comments. Changing other things
would break compatibility, and that's usually not a good idea for
cosmetic changes.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-08 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-08 20:38 Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-08 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-08 22:09 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2006-01-08 22:10 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-09 9:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-01-08 22:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-09 12:48 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-01-09 8:28 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2006-01-09 11:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-01-09 18:44 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-10 0:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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