From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275300AbTHSCWi (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275303AbTHSCWi (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:22:38 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:49859 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275300AbTHSCWh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:22:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4189E1.5010808@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:22:25 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brown, Len" CC: "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.x ACPI updates References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Brown, Len wrote: > The ISO_8859_1 acute accent, u with diaeresis, and registered sign, have been in Config.info since Feb 2002. > > Andy's tools seem to have extended them to 16-bit characters during a merge. A "minor gaff"? Okay, I guess that's fair. He promises that he doesn't know how to type a latin capital A with a circumflex on his keyboard;-). > > Moving on... Is the fix to restore the 8-bit characters, or use 7-bit characters? Just sent a private message, but to relate the process to others as well... The fix is to ensure that the ACPI updates sent to Marcelo never touch areas of Documentation/Configure.help that do not relate to ACPI ;-) Whatever characters are currently in Configure.help, just leave them be :) Jeff, being a UTF8 fan, is pained saying this...