linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxrpn=GdgqgrczUdj-wndFdQvmfytwMiYL5=TQWhfpAjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:41:26 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup (c) sign

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
>
> It got sent from here as iso8859-1.

It's probably a good idea to just move away from Latin1 entirely, and
encourage people to just use utf-8.

But yes, Andrew's scripts clearly do a horrible job at looking at
email encoding, and that really should be fixed.

I worry less about silly copyright signs than about peoples actual
_names_, but we've certainly seen problems there too.

                 Linus