From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933092AbdGTBEm (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:04:42 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:60945 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932107AbdGTBEk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:04:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML References: <20170719144457.8b1b6556fc7883ac7bc2b2b0@linux-foundation.org> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <71b7a3e8-7fb7-5612-e244-8d8295baf943@infradead.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:04:38 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/19/2017 05:53 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> Your mailer is crap, and destroys utf-8 characters. In particular: >> >> -M: MichaÅ‚ MirosÅ‚aw > > Using pseudo-MIME-encoding, that was actually (before my cut-and-paste > mangled it even more): > > Micha=c3=85=c2=82 Miros=c3=85=c2=82aw > >> should be >> >> -M: Michał Mirosław > > And the correct utf-8 is > > Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw > > and it *looks* like what happened is that something thought the input > was Latin1, and converted the Latin1 to UTF-8. > > So the utf-8 character 'ł' (two bytes: =C5=82) was seen as two Latin1 > character bytes: =c5 and =82. > > And then each of those were converted mindlessly to utf-8, so the 'c5' > character became '=C3=85' and the '82' character became '=c2=82'. > > So you have something that believes that a source file was latin1. > > May I suggest just making absolutely *everything* on your system use a > utf-8 locale? > > Because in this day and age, anything but utf-8 is just woefully > broken crud. "Just say no". Thanks for the diagnosis. Will do. -- ~Randy