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

Dragan Simic
2024-04-16T16:53:20Z

On 2024-04-16 16:51, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> 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 :-).

I agree, "deg C" or "degrees C" is the way to go, and my vote goes to
"degrees C". Just to clarify, I use "oC" as some kind of a shorthand
when having less to type outweighs the correctness. :)