On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:17:06PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 8 2007 02:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >On Jan 7 2007 22:30, Alan wrote: > >> > >>> >The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8 > >>> > >>> I've seen a lot of places that don't do so. Want a patch? > >> > >>I think that would be a good idea - and add it to the coding/docs specs > >>that documentation is UTF-8. Code should IMHO say 7bit though. > > Most memorable issues: > > * "don<decimal-180>t" (standalone accent aigu) rather than "don't" > (apostrophe) > * "<decimal-160>", non breaking spaces > * cp437 encoding in some files (heh, heh, DOS!) > * iso8859-1/utf-8 mixed in some files Looks nicely done, but I query the postal address changes in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd - that seems to be a change of address (without anything to explain it). Everything else seems to be just character-set conversion or the occasional translation of comments into English. (And no, I didn't attempt to review the character-set changes, even it there is an occasional error it will be better than where we are now, and easy to patch.) > > My compose key is hot now... I prefer the AltGr dead keys in X (they seem to work more reliably for me), but I guess I'm straying OT. > > None of you people screw that patch with your buggy MUAs! I'll pack > it up into a .bz2 to get it marked as application/octet-stream to > not even give your MUA the chance to. ;-) [and because it's 221 K > uncompressed and I am not sure if splitting it up makes much sense for > such 'trivial' changes, or not?] > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -`J' > --
Thanks for doing this, I hope it wasn't in vain. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
