Re: [PATCH 4/4] Kconfig: Make all Kconfig encoding ascii

Francesco Dolcini
2024-04-16T14:51:40Z

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 03:18:08PM +0200, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2024-04-16 08:59, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:36:12AM +0200, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 02:22:02PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > > > C is the sign for coulomb which is the unit of electric charge. How
> > > > about 'deg C'?
> > >
> > > I'll note that in Linux there's seemingly nothing consistent, and I'm
> > > fine with any of "deg C" or "degrees C" or "temperature range (-40 C to
> > > +85 C)" as all of those should be clear in context.
> >
> > My 2 cents ... while I agree with Tom that the context will make it
> > clear, it is not making it correct nor nice. Using just "C" for Celsius
> > degrees is horrible ...
>
> FWIW, I usually use "oC", which is far from perfect, but IMHO also
> far from horrible. :)

"oC" is also horrible, "deg C" or "degrees C" that Heinrich proposed are the
way to go if you need something 7-bit ascii :-).

Francesco