From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check charset in scripts/checkpatch.pl
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:11:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711011153.GU11166@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183706391.2747.27.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:19:50AM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:03 -0400 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Reject all legacy 8-bit character sets and allow only ASCII or UTF-8 to
> > > be added to files or used in patch descriptions.
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind this?
>
> The character set used by the kernel is UTF-8. So we should check for
> people trying to add invalid stuff in other character sets. There's no
> way for them to _label_ legacy character sets as such; it's not like
> MIME email where we can use a different charset for every mail and
> expect people to cope. We need to be consistent.
Seconded.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 7:01 [PATCH] Check charset in scripts/checkpatch.pl David Woodhouse
2007-07-06 7:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-06 7:19 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-11 1:11 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
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