Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:43 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > Is this really needed Adrian ? I mean, everyone reads iso-8859-1, not > everyone reads UTF-8.
"Everyone" who speaks a Western European language, perhaps; and even then, mostly because a lot of tools still have a "oh, it's not valid UTF-8, guess iso-8859-1" mode. The most common instance of non-ASCII characters in Linux kernel code are people's names, and there are plenty of names which aren't representable in either ASCII or iso-8859-1.
The debate on this was years ago, and the consensus was to migrate to UTF-8; however, the salient information should be expressed in the ASCII character set unless impossible.
-hpa
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