Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8

From: Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 07:47:27 EST


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I'd say ACK. However,
>
>
>>iocharset=name Character set to use for converting from Unicode to
>> ASCII. The default is to do no conversion. Use
>>- iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations. This requires
>>+ iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations. This requires
>> CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file.
>
>
> If you are really nitpicky about the "-", then it should also be
> "iocharset=utf-8" (and whereever else). Or what's the real purpose of
> adding the dashes in only half of the places, then?

glibc was the starter, AFAIR. So both utf8 and UTF-8 are generally accepted, but utf-8 is not that
wide spread.

Kalin.

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