Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:03:34 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only encode UTF-8 quoted printable mail headers |
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Hi Arnd,
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:50 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On a related note, I've looked through all files in the kernel, and found > that very file files in there are something other than 7-bit ASCII, UTF-8 > or non-text files (according to /usr/bin/file). These are the only ones I found: > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt: ISO-8859 text > arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10-inet97fv2.dts: C source, ISO-8859 text > arch/arm/crypto/sha256_glue.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > arch/arm/crypto/sha256_neon_glue.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > arch/m68k/hp300/hp300map.map: ISO-8859 text > arch/s390/kernel/ebcdic.c: C source, Non-ISO > extended-ASCII text > drivers/crypto/vmx/ghashp8-ppc.pl: a /usr/bin/env > perl script, ISO-8859 text executable > drivers/iio/dac/ltc2632.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/odm.h: C source, ISO-8859 text > drivers/tty/vt/defkeymap.map: ISO-8859 text > kernel/events/callchain.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > lib/fonts/font_7x14.c: data > lib/fonts/font_8x16.c: data > lib/fonts/font_8x8.c: data > lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c: data > net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig: ISO-8859 text > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_mh.c: C source, ISO-8859 text > tools/power/cpupower/po/de.po: GNU gettext > message catalogue, ISO-8859 text > tools/power/cpupower/po/fr.po: GNU gettext > message catalogue, ISO-8859 text > > Almost all of those can be trivially converted using 'recode ISO-8859-1..UTF-8', > which we should probably do. The four font files contain comments for each > of the 256 characters, so that recode turns e.g. the <FF> character > into <U+00FF>, > which is probably still what we want here. > > The one exception seems to be arch/s390/kernel/ebcdic.c, which apparently > uses 0x81 bytes as an excape before characters ISO-8859-1 characters with > the high bit set. I don't know what that encoding is called, but I managed > to manually convert it into something useful.
Yes, we should convert everything to UTF-8.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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