On May 3 2007 09:21, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > >There's no reason for any non-UTF-8 to be in the tree at all, so >eventually it won't be a problem. I'm (slowly but surely) working on >converting everything in the tree. GCC handles UTF-8 just fine, and all In fact, GCC gives a crap about comments :) and otherwise sees things as octets, not characters. I think GCJ is the only one that really pays attention to encoding. >non-stupid/non-broken distributions of GNU/Linux and other major Un*ces >should be based on (or at least compatible with) UTF-8 in basic >operations. Files like the keymaps will be more work to convert, but they >can be as well. > >I'm operating on the assumption that anything in the tree that isn't UTF-8 >is ISO-8859-1. Of course, I'm also checking it by hand to make sure a >small-O-with-umlaut doesn't become the Klingon logo... This is probably all you'll ever see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/222 Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
