From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261796AbUCDKSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:18:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261816AbUCDKSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:18:53 -0500 Received: from tartutest.cyber.ee ([193.40.6.70]:36101 "EHLO tartutest.cyber.ee") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261796AbUCDKSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:18:53 -0500 From: Meelis Roos To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eger@havoc.gtf.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source In-Reply-To: <20040304100503.GA13970@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.3 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:19:39 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org DE> Here you find the first of several patches to convert the kernel DE> source from ISO Latin-1 to UTF-8. I'm working on the files that didn't DE> auto-convert easily; comments welcome ;-) Why? It's just easier to use plain 8-bit text files today (with editors, code tools etc) and accept the limitations of it that to overcome the limitations by forcing people to UTF-8 editors & other tools. I am not a kernel developer but this seems a bad idea to me. -- Meelis Roos