From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758583AbXGKBMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755937AbXGKBMK (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:10 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:52165 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755819AbXGKBMJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:11:53 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: David Woodhouse Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check charset in scripts/checkpatch.pl Message-ID: <20070711011153.GU11166@waste.org> References: <1183705264.2747.20.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070706000807.8f9f83ca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1183706391.2747.27.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1183706391.2747.27.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 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.