From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:20:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050417192000.C13233@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4262A767.4040300@dwheeler.com>; from dwheeler@dwheeler.com on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:13:59PM -0400
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:13:59PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote:
> >>BTW, there appears to be "errors" in the history committed thus far.
> >>I'm not sure where this came from though. Some of them could be
> >>UTF8 vs ASCII issues, ....>
> ...
> >>One thing which definitely needs to be considered is - what character
> >>encoding are the comments to be stored as?
>
> Linus Torvalds replied:
> > To git, it's just a byte stream, and you can have binary comments if you
> > want to. I personally would prefer to move towards UTF eventually, but I
> > really don't think it matters a whole lot as long as 99.9% of everything
> > we'd see there is still 7-bit ascii.
>
> I would _heartily_ recommend moving towards UTF-8 as the
> internal charset for all comments. Alternatives are possible
> (e.g., recording the charset in the header), but they're
> incredibly messy. Even if you don't normally work in UTF-8,
> it's pretty easy to set most editors up to read & write UTF-8.
> Having the data stored as a constant charset eliminates
> a raft of error-prone code.
Except, I believe, MicroEMACS, which both Linus and myself use. As
far as I know, there aren't any patches to make it UTF-8 compliant.
The alternative is, I suppose, iconv. However, iconv in _my_ glibc
seems buggy (segfaults) and my efforts for building glibc 2.3.2 for
ARM have failed. Effectively that means iconv is inaccessible to
me.
--
Russell King
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-16 23:01 Re-done kernel archive - real one? Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 15:24 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 16:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 18:57 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 19:51 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 20:11 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 20:42 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 22:16 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 22:33 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 23:53 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 16:05 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 18:13 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 18:14 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 18:20 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-04-17 18:44 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-18 11:15 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-17 20:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-17 21:50 ` Jochen Roemling
2005-04-17 22:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-17 22:30 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 21:52 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-17 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 22:19 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 22:51 ` Russell King
2005-04-17 23:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 9:23 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 11:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-18 11:15 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 18:07 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 21:53 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 22:48 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 22:59 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 23:09 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 7:27 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 21:33 ` Russell King
2005-04-18 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 14:22 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18 15:04 ` Greg KH
2005-04-18 15:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-18 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 22:05 ` Greg KH
2005-04-18 22:14 ` Greg KH
2005-04-18 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 23:26 ` Greg KH
2005-04-18 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-17 22:22 ` randy_dunlap
2005-04-17 23:21 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-18 1:33 ` randy_dunlap
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