On October 25, 2016 4:36:41 PM PDT, Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> wrote: >[Adding Peter to CC] > >On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:00:33 -0200 >Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com> wrote: > >> Probably, unicode is something that we might remove from the >> docs, as all modern systems support it. Yet, this chapter >> is fun, as it mentions support for the Klington fictional >> charset ;) >> >> On the other hand, I bet all other OS user manuals >> explicit mention unicode support. >> >> So, convert it to ReST and include it at the user's book. > >So it's cute, but it hasn't been touched in the Git era and I don't >believe it has any information that our users can actually make use of. > > >Peter, what do you say; is Documentation/unicode.txt still something we >need to drag around with us? > >Thanks, > >jon
It's not about Unicode support, it is about Linux-local codepoints. We haven't needed any for a while, but we might again. There needs to be a central registry so we don't end up allocating the same code point twice. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
