On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:40:33 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I sympathize with Jonathan's general concern here -- if this patchset > makes it impossible for people to build documentation with (for example) > their preferred collation order, it would be suboptimal. > > On the other hand, this seems to focus on character encodings > specifically; do we really want to encourage any sort of encodings other > than UTF-8? The only plausible arguments i've heard for documents that > are exclusively CJK characters, which could achieve a modest size > reduction using more targeted encodings. afaik, there are no such > documents in the kernel, and i doubt there ever will be. Well, there are CJK documents in the kernel, actually, though none are in the DocBook directory currently. Regardless of this, it's not a matter of which encodings we are encouraging. If we want to encourage utf-8 use, we might not want to start in the kernel's documentation directory. I think we need to respect the user's choice in this regard and not try to override it. If I take this patch, I suspect somebody will yell at me for it... With regard to reproducible builds: success in this area certainly requires reproducing the build environment as well. Honestly, I think that needs to include the locale settings. Let me know if you think I've totally misunderstood things. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
