Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:12:10 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) |
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On Jan 7 2007 18:21, Alan wrote: > >> 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?
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