linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: correctly parse UTF-8 encoded names in files

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Message-ID: <fdb7c6312ea52086566e279918b5b873c687fecd.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:17:56 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Duje Mihanović <duje.mihanovic@...le.hr>,
        Alvin Šipraga <alvin@...s.dk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: correctly parse UTF-8 encoded names in
 files

On Mon, 2023-10-16 at 16:37 +0200, Duje Mihanović wrote:
> On Saturday, October 14, 2023 7:22:44 PM CEST Alvin Šipraga wrote:
> > From: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>
> > 
> > While the script correctly extracts UTF-8 encoded names from the
> > MAINTAINERS file, the regular expressions damage my name when parsing
> > from .yaml files. Fix this by replacing the Latin-1-compatible regular
> > expressions with the unicode property matcher \p{Latin}.

Well, OK

> >  It's also
> > necessary to instruct Perl to open all files with UTF-8 encoding.

But I'm not at all sure this is actually desired.