Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:42:31 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 |
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 08/06/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > [snip] >> >> It's not only about MODULE_AUTHOR, if you consider it rude to limit >> people's names to ASCII, then don't forget that we have printk's like >> Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones >> >> What happens if the maintainer changes and it's now >> Linux agpgart interface v0.103 (c) Dave Ønes >> >> Does the console handle it correctly during boot? >> Can all tools that process the syslog cope with it? >> >> Perhaps the answer is in both cases "yes", but it's a completely >> untested area. >> >> We really must have all bugs shaken out and all users using fixed tools >> _before_ we can start outputting UTF-8 - limiting people's names to >> ASCII in not ideal, but IMHO causing breakages for users is a much >> bigger problem. > > I haven't looked at it in depth yet, but it would seem we already have > a few files that need to be looked at with this in mind. Looks like > it's not exactely a new problem (although all the following could be > in comments of course)... >...
They should all be in comments, and all UTF-8 I've ever seen in such files was only in comments (mostly author names). So yes, adding UTF-8 to program code will result in new problems.
If you find any source file that contains UTF-8 outside of comments please complain loudly.
cu Adrian
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