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

[Måns Rullgård]

Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

How do you propose that editors should know which encoding a file
uses?  The trend seems to be moving towards UTF-8 for everything, so
the kernel might as well do it too.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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