From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35588 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388762AbeGXWIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:08:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:00:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Joe Perches , Samuel Ortiz , "David S. Miller" , Rob Herring , Michael Ellerman , Jonathan Cameron , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 Message-Id: <20180724140010.e24a9964fd340afe2d98a994@linux-foundation.org> (sfid-20180724_230028_916834_CD5C3CD5) In-Reply-To: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> References: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann 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. Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:00:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> References: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20180724140010.e24a9964fd340afe2d98a994@linux-foundation.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann 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. Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?