[U-Boot] [PATCH] [NEXT] arm926ejs: add split relocation support

Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-18T20:45:38Z

Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4C90B904.9020305@free.fr> you wrote:
>
> > So far we've been using ISO8859-1
>
> It is not clear to me whether you're expressing a coding rule or just a
> statement of fact, so I'll ask more precise questions:
>
> 1) is UTF-8 allowed or not in u-boot?
>
> 2) if UTF-8 is allowed along with ISO8859-1, then a) which one should be
> preferred for new files, and b) which should be preferred for patches to
> existing files?
>
> 3) if UTF-8 is not allowed, then what should be done about the 56 u-boot
> source files that currently are UTF-8?
>
> Wolfgang, can you explicitly answer these points? In case the answer to
> question 3 is "they should be converted to ISO", of course being the one
> to raise the issue, I shall be the one to submit the fix.

So far this has not been "officially" decided yet. My personal
preference is ISO-8859-1, so if nobody protests I suggest we add a
"[i18n] commitencoding = ISO-8859-1" to the .git/config file.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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