From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:00:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8
> encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few
> characters in a C comments, for historic reasons.
> 
> This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.

Was "consistency" the only rationale?  The discussion is now outside my
memory horizon but I thought there were other reasons.

Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?