Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:38:57 +0100, Willy Tarreau said:
> it's clearly the proof of a flaw in the initial design. And I'm not even
> discussing the stupidity which requires that you read a whole text to get
> its number of characters !

It's no more stupid than the *current* situation with Linux kernel code, where
the stupidity actually requires that even if you know that there are only 60
characters on a given line, you actually have to look at each one in order to
figure out if the line goes past column 80....

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