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    SubjectRe: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

    On Jan 7 2007 18:21, Alan wrote:
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    >> So, in short, UTF-8 is all fine and dandy if your _entire_ universe
    >> is UTF-8 enabled. If you're operating in a mixed charset environment
    >> it's one bloody big pain in the butt.
    >
    >Net ASCII is 7bit and is 1:1 mapped with UTF-8 unicode. It's just old
    >broken 8bit encodings that are problematic.
    >
    >The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8

    I've seen a lot of places that don't do so. Want a patch?


    -`J'
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