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

On 1/8/07, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun 2007-01-07 22:30:55, Alan wrote:
> I think that would be a good idea - and add it to the coding/docs specs
> that documentation is UTF-8. Code should IMHO say 7bit though.

Yes, yes, please.

I have been flamed when someone tried to do 8bit patch, and I was
trying to NAK it...

Could this get put in Documentation/CodingStyle?  And an item added to
the kernel janitors' list to fix up 8bit files?  Last I looked trying
to decided if there was a standard here I found a mish-mash of
encodings based output of file vs Linus' git tree.
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