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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:27:18PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> You miss my point.
>
> The point is:
> A conversion "ASCII -> UTF-8" is a nop.
>
> This means when changing the kernel from half a dozen charsets used in
> comments to UTF-8 we only had to change the few characters actually
> containing non UTF-8.

"containing non-ASCII"

> Going to something like UTF-32 as you suggest would have involved
> converting every single file in the kernel.

cu
Adrian

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