Working with UTF-8 in the kernel [LWN.net]

Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Apr 8, 2019 6:24 UTC (Mon) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459)
In reply to: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel by mina86
Parent article: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

If only more people were as reasonable as Irish who changed the Gaelic alphabet to be compatible with typewriters (changing there accentuated laters with combinations of naked letters, like gh) and therefore now don't have any problem like this ...

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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Apr 11, 2019 20:57 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Well if you do this, aren't you going eventually to end up with just one letter in your alphabet? Okay, I'm being facetious, but this happened to the Roman alphabet in the ?1400s, when printing arrived. Pre-printing, the written English alphabet had a fair few more letters than 26. I'm not sure of the details, but at least one example is the replacement of thorn (looks like the Yen symbol) with Y, hence all the signs "Ye Olde Coffee Shop".

Cheers,
Wol