Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:02:30 -0700 |
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On 07/24/2018 02:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > >> Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8 >> encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few >> characters in a C comments, for historic reasons. >> >> This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency. > > Was "consistency" the only rationale? The discussion is now outside my > memory horizon but I thought there were other reasons.
kconfig tools prefer ASCII or utf-8.
email tools probably likewise.
user sanity?
> Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?
-- ~Randy
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