Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:58:12 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Alphabet of kernel source |
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:06:28PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Anyhow, long story short, this got me thinking... What is the charset > and the encoding of the actual source? I saw quite a discussion about > the filenames, but this is different. I am sorry if this was discussed > previously.
This has come up repeatedly. As far as I recall, Linus has never said anything. The de facto situation can be seen by just inspecting the MAINTAINERS file. Kai Makisara has a diaeresis on the first vowel of his last name. Today (2.6.6) that is still coded in ISO 8859-1.
In old discussions people who disliked 8859-1 expressed strong preference for plain ASCII (possibly with TeX-like escape sequences for non-ASCII). These days it seems that, if anything is changed, the only reasonable action would be to switch to UTF-8.
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