Re: [PATCH] It's UTF-8

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> I'd say ACK. However,
> 
> 
>>iocharset=name	Character set to use for converting from Unicode to
>>		ASCII.  The default is to do no conversion.  Use
>>-		iocharset=utf8 for UTF8 translations.  This requires
>>+		iocharset=utf8 for UTF-8 translations.  This requires
>>		CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 to be set in the kernel .config file.
> 
> 
> If you are really nitpicky about the "-", then it should also be 
> "iocharset=utf-8" (and whereever else). Or what's the real purpose of 
> adding the dashes in only half of the places, then?

glibc was the starter, AFAIR. So both utf8 and UTF-8 are generally accepted, but utf-8 is not that
wide spread.

Kalin.

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