fedora release name problem

[Ian Malone]

On 20 March 2013 23:35, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> Le Mar 19 mars 2013 11:38, Ian Malone a écrit :
>>
>> > and holding up the release for what is basically a triviality seems a
>> > bit silly.
>>
>> The perception correct UTF-8 handling is a triviality that should be
>> worked on at some later date is the reason we have this breakage now.
>
> No. As I understand it, this bug would have happened if we were still in
> the 20th century and using the legacy 8-bit encodings too.
>
> We have an 'is it text?' function which arbitrarily allows 2% of bytes
> to be >= 0x80. Which means that even in ISO8859-1, a file containing
> just the words "Schrödinger's Cat" wouldn't be considered to be text.
>
> It's just broken; it's not even UTF-8 specific. In fact, UTF-8 makes
> things *easier* because you can check for valid UTF-8 byte sequences
> instead of just bytes >= 0x80.
>

I had to read that twice before my brain would accept its meaning.
There's a smiley on a forum I use that would be appropriate, but :eek:
isn't quite so good without the picture.

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imalone
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