From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:55:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:13:20 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
> []
> > Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?
> 
> How would that be done?

I'm using this, seems to work.

        if ! file $p | grep -q -P ", ASCII text|, UTF-8 Unicode text"
        then
                echo $p: weird charset
        fi