From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:28:05 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files Message-ID: <4E0AC5F5.2080908@aribaud.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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.