Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:18:41 +0900 | From | Kalin KOZHUHAROV <> | Subject | Re: Alphabet of kernel source |
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David Eger wrote: > I started a thread a while ago (2.6.3/2.6.4) where I submitted some > patches to UTF-8ifying the kernel sources. Basically, most of the > kernel is ASCII (98.4% of the files). The rest are mostly ISO-Latin-1, > with the rare bit of Japanese (in a couple of charsets) and some just > random bytes in some of the Documentation/...
The "problem" is contributor names, although having everything in plain ASCII is resonable, I guess.
> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-auto.diff A lot of names and some art supposed to be ASCII.
> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-cstrings2utf8.diff Some degree symbols and microseconds... and names. I remember having problems with lm-sensors trying to print degrees, how did they fight the problem?
> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-jp.diff Ok, this Japanese is only in the comments. I can translate that in no time and fix this diff. WTF is arch/v850/ ? I guess you had some kind of script, can you try it on vanilla 2.6.7, plesae, and post results.
> http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.4-utf8-cleanup-wrong.diff There are a few microseconds written properly, but may commonly by typed as us, or just don't use abbr.
> It's sorta difficult to do non-ASCII patches over email because > the kernel developers like reading their mail in mutt, and don't > like attachments (the only sane ways to send non 7-bit clean data: > 8-bit MIME: tagged and bagged or uuencoded) > > Further, you confuse the hell out of vi if you have any trash (8bit data > in another charset) in a file that's supposed to be UTF-8. i.e. don't > think you're going to be able to look at a charset changing patch in > anything. Totally agree, although I use Mozilla Mail (and sometimes mutt).
Kalin.
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