From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from asavdk3.altibox.net ([109.247.116.14]:34867 "EHLO asavdk3.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752129AbaFFNSD (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 09:18:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 15:17:49 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling in nconfig Message-ID: <20140606131748.GC4889@ravnborg.org> References: <1401868351-24014-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1401868351-24014-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Brian Norris Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, "Yann E. MORIN" , Artem Bityutskiy On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:52:29AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi, > > The first patch is trivial. > > The second is inspired by a long-standing bugzilla entry: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43067 > > The MTD_NAND_CAFE Kconfig symbol (drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig) has description > text which uses a multi-byte UTF-8 character: the 'É' in 'CAFÉ'. This > character (and other similar >8bit UTF-8 characters) is not handled > correctly by many of the kernel configuration tools (notably 'make nconfig' > and 'make xconfig'). nconfig was especially broken, as it would completely > drop any menu entry which had non-ASCII characters, as well as ALL > subsequent entries in the same window (!!). Thanks for fixing this. Sam