Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Kconfig: drop utf8 characters

Artem Bityutskiy
2013-01-15T10:38:38Z

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On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 04:27 +0100, Martin Walch wrote:
>
> To make a long story short: multibyte characters in Kconfig files lead to
> undefined behaviour. This is no implementation bug. The configuration system
> just has not been designed for processing them. So utf-8 support can not be
> achieved with an easy fix, but will need comprehensive changes.
>
> I do not know if anyone is willing to actually make all the necessary work to
> properly support utf-8 in the configuration system. However, I suppose this
> will not happen any time soon. Therefore I suggest removing the multibyte
> characters for now.

Sure, thanks for a detailed analysis. What I agree with is removing
non-ASCII characters in case they cause a functional or build problems,
just because, as you said, fixing Kbuild is a big task.

However, in this particular case, this is just about user seeing rubbins
in the configuration menu, which is not a big deal, I think, so I would
prefer to rather expose the issue than fix it.