Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:50:39 -0400 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Non-ASCII chars in visor.c messages |
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:38:21PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > Hello, > > what is the general opinion on printing non-ASCII characters in kernel > messages? I think kernel should print either pure ASCII messages, or > at least UTF-8-encoded ones.
"pure ASCII"? Heh, that's the first time I've heard that.
> The visor.c module contains three messages > with non-ASCII character ("e" with acute above, encoded in > ISO 8859-1, in the name of "Sony Clie'" handheld). I propose the attached > patch, which works in all environments (altough UTF-8 variant would be > IMHO fine as well). > > What do you think about it?
I don't think it's really needed. Why change this, syslog can't handle this? It works for me...
thanks,
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