On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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. Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?
