Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

[Stephen Clark]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On 5/7/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:49:50 +0000
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > On Mon 2007-05-07 16:10:53, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:04 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > Can we stick to ascii in sources?
> > > > >          
> > > > No. Please join us in the 21st century.
> > > >        
> > > We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should be us-ascii.
> > > utf-8 is ok for documentation.
> > >      
> > We had this discussion before. Kernel sources should use utf-8 for
> > comments where neccessary. Many names cannot be correctly represented in
> > US ascii, and mangling them is just plain rude.
> >    
>
> So should we all start writing our names in native alphabets? And comments too?
>
>  
And while your at I think you should write all the comments and 
documentation in your
native language as well ;-)


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