Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

[Nick Piggin]

Marc Lehmann wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:48:19PM +0000, John Bradford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Quote from Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > None of this is a real problem, if everything is set up correctly and
> > bug free.  Unfortunately the Just Works thing falls apart in the,
> > (frequent), instances that it's not :-(.
>      
> And this is the whole point.
>
> BTW, to people trying to explain some properties of UTF-8 to me. I don't
> think ad-hominem attacks like assuming that I don't understand UTF-8
> (without any indication that this is so) are useful.
>
> The point here is that the kernel does, in a very narrow interpretation,
> not support the use of UTF-8, because proper support of UTF-8 means that
> no illegal byte sequences will be produced.

So does the kernel support the English language? Does your
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