> So, in short, UTF-8 is all fine and dandy if your _entire_ universe > is UTF-8 enabled. If you're operating in a mixed charset environment > it's one bloody big pain in the butt. Net ASCII is 7bit and is 1:1 mapped with UTF-8 unicode. It's just old broken 8bit encodings that are problematic. The kernel maintainers/help/config pretty consistently use UTF8 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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