Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source

[Xavier Bestel]

Le sam 06/03/2004 à 00:33, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> Followup to:  <20040305232425.GA6239@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> By author:    David Eger <eger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings.
> > These are almost always output to devfs or proc.  The characters used are
> > the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds).
>
> I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol.

ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8.

	Xav

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