Hi!
> > > > > > And how about serial terminals?
> > > > >
> > > > > It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?
> > > >
> > > > He probably means serial terminals... like physical vt100. I used to
> > > > have one (vt302 compatible or something). Most emulators still
> > > > emulate vt100, and yes, vt100 predates utf-8.
> > >
> > > I have a serial terminal which can only do lower case (well, actually
> > > capitals but it's all mapped to lower case since that's more useful).
> > >
> > > When I write code on it, I can't do capital letters. But do I try to
> > > _force_ you to use only capitals because of my limited terminal?
> >
> > If I wrote int j, J; in my code, you'd have valid case wanting me to
> > fix it. And I simply want you to fix useless uses of utf-8. And evil
> > uses utf8, like int voltage; /* ??V */. I do not know what is so hard
> > to understand.
> >
> > You are intentionally making code hard to read. Stop trying to merge
> > that crap.
>
> It was °C, and that's IMHO better readable than some kind of
> "degrees C".
It is more readable for you, and more readable on me while in desktop
X. But on Zaurus and on console I see "???C", and I definitely prefer
"degrees C" to _that_.
And I'm clearly not alone.
> Only using 7bit ASCII might have been a good advice in the last
> millenium. But in the current millenium, most environments handle UTF-8
> just fine.
Common denominator should be used. That includes 80 columns.
> And we are only talking about documentation and comments - IOW, things
> not visible for someone running a kernel. Code (including printk's) must
> stay 7bit ASCII.
Yes, something that cafe driver breaks... it identifies to userland as
"caf???"... but that's another story.
I'd add that variable names must be 7bit ASCII.
> In the worst case, if you managed to find a not UTF-8 capable
> environment for viewing the kernel sources, the few characters that are
> not 7bit ASCII are displayed incorrectly, and you'll have to guess which
> character someone might place in front of a "C" describing something
> named wBAT_TEMP (you will likely guess it correctly).
Yes, but it would be better to avoid it.. and guessing is much harder
for ???V case (same driver).
I do not think using comments people can actually _read_ is that much
to ask.
Pavel
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