On 07/24/2018 02:00 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. 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
