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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <1078571331.963.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Le sam 06/03/2004 à 00:33, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> > Followup to:  <20040305232425.GA6239@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > By author:    David Eger <eger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > > The third patch concerns 8-bit characters embedded in C strings.
> > > These are almost always output to devfs or proc.  The characters used are
> > > the degrees symbol (for ppc temp. sensors) and mu (for micro-seconds).
> >
> > I would highly vote for making those UTF-8 unless it breaks protocol.
> 
> ISO-8859-1 characters are mostly the same in UTF-8.
> 

Unicode, yes.  UTF-8, no.  The ISO-8859-1 character "Å" (0xC5) does,
indeed correspond to Unicode character U+00C5, but it's encoded 0xC3
0x85 in UTF-8.

	-hpa
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