Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:06:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Alphabet of kernel source |
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Guys, > > I have a silly question, for which I am unable to google out the answer > so far. Do we have a Linus' decree on the charset and encoding of the > kernel source? > [SNIPPED...]
Good question! It was supposed to be ASCII which, I guess is UTF-8 or something like that. However, I find that tabs, which were decreed to be at 8-collumn intervals end up being used instead of spaces i.e., one-column, etc. So, if you look at some well-patched source you sometimes see a mess.
The names of contributors often have non-ASCII characters in them. This may not be a problem, but when using `pine` without the 'latest-and-greatest' version, they sometimes are unreadable.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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