Compile performance of Linux kernels in mainline gcc

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

> But using UTF-8 quotes in a English (or other Latin) locale even when UTF-8 
> is enabled doesn't make any sense. It's just an unnecessary source of errors
> and a waste of bytes (why encode something in 3-4 bytes when a single byte
> works just fine and is more compatible too?) 

UTF-8 quotes are typographically correct English.  ASCII quotes are not; 
their use in English typography is a kludge for character set limitations 
which are not present with UTF-8; by using a UTF-8 locale you declare that 
your environment does not have such limitations and at least any 
non-combining character from Unicode may freely be used (even if combining 
characters might have more problems in some cases).  Such changes have 
been envisaged for at least five years (e.g. 
<http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/1999-12/msg00041.html>); we have now 
made them while avoiding the problems of having an English message 
catalog.

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