Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source | Date | Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:14:27 +0100 |
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Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:
> Le sam 06/03/2004 à 00:33, H. Peter Anvin a écrit : >> Followup to: <20040305232425.GA6239@havoc.gtf.org> >> By author: David Eger <eger@havoc.gtf.org> >> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel >> >> > The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings. >> > These are almost always output to devfs or proc. The characters used are >> > the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds). >> >> I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol. > > ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8.
The 7-bit ones are the same. The 8-bit ones are all different.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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