> Oh, don't get me wrong. I do think what the patch does is very > sensible and have no intention of rejecting it. I'm sorry for making you worry, my poor English had caused some misunderstanding. I raised this Shift_JIS related problem (a.k.a "ダメ文字" in Japanese) might attract your interest knowingly. I would like to hear frank opinions from engineers who have high abilities like you. ;) > As I said, the question was "Just out of curiosity", since it's been > so long since I was in any part of software work done in Japan. Having said that, many people in Japan are still suffering from these character encoding barriers. This was a huge shock for me, since I was studying information science in China as a Japanese foreign student. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html