Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:56:01AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 6 2007 22:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> >Leonard Norrgård (1):
> >      sound: hda: detect ALC883 on MSI K9A Platinum motherboards (MS-7280)
> 
> Something seems to have mangled the name, that should have
> been an å not A¥. (Something reencoded it). A gitlog problem?

That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8.  However, Linus
sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8
encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.

Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.

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