On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 06:47:31PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > Non-UTF-8 characters are a problem for some terminals and also > make greping harder than necessary - this only switches the > copyright sign to the common (C). > > Reported-by: Markus Kreidl <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]> > --- > > Found by checkpatch --strict: > CHECK: Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8 > #7: FILE: kernel/events/callchain.c:7: > + * Copyright ? 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <[email protected]> > > Before I start generating sets of patches that fix encoding issues > I would like to know if that is going to be accepted at all - the > background is that it causes quite a bit of trouble when automating > tools if these encoding problems make using simple tools hard (e.g. > grep) and thus make automation a lot more complicated that necessary. > It seems to me that the codingstyle does not mandate UTF-8 but there > are a few places where it is "suggested" like in: > Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
The last discussion on the subject was: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.2/02928.html Which seemed to suggest replacing it with the UTF8 equivalent glyph. I can't remember a patch, not Paul Ack'ing it (which is very much required in order to change his copyright message).
