linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

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Message-ID: <20170830152314.0486fafb@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:23:14 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-media <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:10:09 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> kernel-doc parsing uses as ASCII codec, so let people know that
> kernel-doc comments should be in ASCII characters only.
> 
> WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128)

So I don't get this error.  What kind of system are you running the docs
build on?  I would really rather that the docs system could handle modern
text if possible, so it would be better to figure out what's going on
here...

Thanks,

jon