Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 08/30/17 16:01, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 08/30/17 15:31, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:15:53 -0300
>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I suspect that the problem is not related to the version, but to
>>> what you might have set on LANG.
>>>
>>> Maybe if we add something like:
>>> 	LANG=C.utf-8
>>>
>>> to the Documentation/Makefile 
>>
>> That's worth a try; Randy, can you give it a quick go?
> 
> Yes, that fixes it for me.  Thanks.

Wait!  I forgot to unpatch demux.h.  I'll test again now....

>>> or adding:
>>>
>>> 	.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
>>>
>>> as the first line on the *.rst file that include the kernel-doc 
>>> directive would solve the issue.
>>
>> I guess I don't see how that would help, instead.  Emacs reads that line,
>> but it's not involved in the problem.
>>
>> I wish I could reproduce this, then we could see what in that massive
>> try..except block in kerneldoc.py is throwing the exception.  Putting in
>> an explicit decode call might be enough to make the problem go away.
> 
> 
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~Randy