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Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

From
David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2005, 18:13 UTC
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote:
>>BTW, there appears to be "errors" in the history committed thus far.
>>I'm not sure where this came from though.  Some of them could be
>>UTF8 vs ASCII issues, ....> 
...
>>One thing which definitely needs to be considered is - what character
>>encoding are the comments to be stored as?
Linus Torvalds replied:
> To git, it's just a byte stream, and you can have binary comments if you
> want to. I personally would prefer to move towards UTF eventually, but I
> really don't think it matters a whole lot as long as 99.9% of everything
> we'd see there is still 7-bit ascii.

I would _heartily_ recommend moving towards UTF-8 as the internal charset for all comments. Alternatives are possible (e.g., recording the charset in the header), but they're incredibly messy. Even if you don't normally work in UTF-8, it's pretty easy to set most editors up to read & write UTF-8. Having the data stored as a constant charset eliminates a raft of error-prone code.

--- David A. Wheeler
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  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  2. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  3. Petr BaudisApr 17, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  5. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  8. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  10. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  12. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  13. Russell KingApr 18, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  17. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  19. David A. WheelerApr 17, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisApr 17, 2005
  21. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  22. David A. WheelerApr 17, 2005
  23. Martin SchlemmerApr 18, 2005
  24. H. Peter AnvinApr 17, 2005
  25. Jochen RoemlingApr 17, 2005
  26. Randy.DunlapApr 17, 2005
  27. Petr BaudisApr 17, 2005
  28. David WoodhouseApr 17, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  30. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  31. Russell KingApr 17, 2005
  32. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  33. Russell KingApr 18, 2005
  34. Martin SchlemmerApr 18, 2005
  35. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  36. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  37. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  38. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  39. Russell KingApr 18, 2005
  40. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  41. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  42. Russell KingApr 18, 2005
  43. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  44. Russell KingApr 19, 2005
  45. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  46. Russell KingApr 18, 2005
  47. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  48. Petr BaudisApr 18, 2005
  49. Greg KHApr 18, 2005
  50. Randy.DunlapApr 18, 2005
  51. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  52. Greg KHApr 18, 2005
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  54. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  55. Greg KHApr 18, 2005
  56. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2005
  57. H. Peter AnvinApr 17, 2005
  58. randy_dunlapApr 17, 2005
  59. David WoodhouseApr 17, 2005
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