On 08/30/17 14:23, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:10:09 -0700 > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> kernel-doc parsing uses as ASCII codec, so let people know that >> kernel-doc comments should be in ASCII characters only. >> >> WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128) > > So I don't get this error. What kind of system are you running the docs > build on? I would really rather that the docs system could handle modern > text if possible, so it would be better to figure out what's going on > here... I'm OK with that. Source files in general don't need to be ASCII (0-127). I did this patch based on this (private) comment: > Yes, using ASCII should fix the problem. what kind of system? HP laptop. Linux midway.site 4.4.79-18.26-default #1 SMP Thu Aug 10 20:30:05 UTC 2017 (fa5a935) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > sphinx-build --version Sphinx (sphinx-build) 1.3.1 -- ~Randy