Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only encode UTF-8 quoted printable mail headers | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:38:44 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 17:03 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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.
Thanks.
Can you send a patch or a script for Linus to apply?
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