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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:02:30 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8

On 07/24/2018 02:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> 
>> Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8
>> encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few
>> characters in a C comments, for historic reasons.
>>
>> This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.
> 
> Was "consistency" the only rationale?  The discussion is now outside my
> memory horizon but I thought there were other reasons.

kconfig tools prefer ASCII or utf-8.

email tools probably likewise.

user sanity?

> Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?



-- 
~Randy