On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:19:50AM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:03 -0400 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Reject all legacy 8-bit character sets and allow only ASCII or UTF-8 to > > > be added to files or used in patch descriptions. > > > > What is the reasoning behind this? > > The character set used by the kernel is UTF-8. So we should check for > people trying to add invalid stuff in other character sets. There's no > way for them to _label_ legacy character sets as such; it's not like > MIME email where we can use a different charset for every mail and > expect people to cope. We need to be consistent.
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