linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: drop optional BOMs

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Date:   Fri, 7 May 2021 02:30:30 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: drop optional BOMs

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 04:19:07PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode
> byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for
> 16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream
> is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses.
> It may also interfere with (confuse) some software.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>