linux-kernel - Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:17:05 -0800
From:	"Tim Pepper" <tpepper@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"Russell King" <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)

On 1/8/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> On Sun 2007-01-07 22:30:55, Alan wrote:
> > I think that would be a good idea - and add it to the coding/docs specs
> > that documentation is UTF-8. Code should IMHO say 7bit though.
>
> Yes, yes, please.
>
> I have been flamed when someone tried to do 8bit patch, and I was
> trying to NAK it...

Could this get put in Documentation/CodingStyle?  And an item added to
the kernel janitors' list to fix up 8bit files?  Last I looked trying
to decided if there was a standard here I found a mish-mash of
encodings based output of file vs Linus' git tree.
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