[U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files

[U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files

[Albert ARIBAUD]

All,

The current code base for U-Boot uses mixed encodings for non-ASCII 
files. Specifically, the distribution of encodings is, accoding to the 
'file' utility of Ubuntu 11.04, out of the 6533 files, 61 are UTF-8 and 
101 are ISO-8859.

There would be an interest in normalizing around either UTF or ISO, 
because for instance mixed encodings in a commit may prevent the display 
of patches in patchwork.

This could go either way of course : converting ISO files to UTF or vice 
versa. The goal of this RFC is to gather the pros and cons on UTF-8 vs 
ISO-8859; then I'll issue a patch to normalize encodings according to 
the discussion (1).

All comments welcome.

(1) note that by its very nature, the patch may quite well not appear in 
patchwork and/or look funny. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

[U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:28, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> There would be an interest in normalizing around either UTF or ISO,
> because for instance mixed encodings in a commit may prevent the display
> of patches in patchwork.

ASCII and UTF are the only encodings that make sense to me.  anything
else is largely esoteric and obnoxious.
-mike

[U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files

[Andreas Bießmann]

Dear Albert Aribaud,

Am 29.06.2011 um 08:28 schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:

> All,

> This could go either way of course : converting ISO files to UTF or vice 
> versa. The goal of this RFC is to gather the pros and cons on UTF-8 vs 
> ISO-8859; then I'll issue a patch to normalize encodings according to 
> the discussion (1).

+1 for UTF-8. If the chinese had invented the computer we would not have this discussion ...

For code plain ASCII could do the job. But since some of us have unusual characters in their names we do need a wider charset to display the names correctly.
Some time we will even have chinese output on console, at this time we would again discuss this question if we choose any ISO now (how about 8859-1 vs. 8859-15? ...).

regards

Andreas Bie?mann