linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/17] Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.

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Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:00:12 -0500
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
CC:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, matt.fleming@...el.com,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.

On 09/20/2013 04:27 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep, at 09:48:44PM, Roy Franz wrote:
>> Would it be acceptable to fix the naming/comments, and convert values
>> above 126 to '?'
>> in the current patchset, and address a more thorough fix in another patch set?
>> The ARM and ARM64 EFI stub patchsets that are mostly complete depend
>> on this one,
>> so getting this merged soon would be helpful.
> 
> Just fixing the function name and comments is enough for this patch
> series. Anything else should be separate.
> 

I just whipped up a patch to do proper UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion.
Completely untested, of course.

	-hpa


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