Em Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:02:59 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > 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 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 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. Regards, Mauro