Re: [PATCH] Check charset in scripts/checkpatch.pl

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:03 -0400 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Reject all legacy 8-bit character sets and allow only ASCII or UTF-8 to
> > be added to files or used in patch descriptions.
> 
> What is the reasoning behind this?

The character set used by the kernel is UTF-8. So we should check for
people trying to add invalid stuff in other character sets. There's no
way for them to _label_ legacy character sets as such; it's not like
MIME email where we can use a different charset for every mail and
expect people to cope. We need to be consistent.

> > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: asd
> 
> Jekyll & Hyde?

Oops. I prepended that to the output of 'git-diff' just to make
checkpatch happy. And then forgot about it when I inserted the text file
into my mailer.

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dwmw2