Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-media <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:02:59 -0700
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On 08/30/17 14:23, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:10:09 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> kernel-doc parsing uses as ASCII codec, so let people know that
>> kernel-doc comments should be in ASCII characters only.
>>
>> WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> So I don't get this error.  What kind of system are you running the docs
> build on?  I would really rather that the docs system could handle modern
> text if possible, so it would be better to figure out what's going on
> here...

I'm OK with that. Source files in general don't need to be ASCII (0-127).

I did this patch based on this (private) comment:

> Yes, using ASCII should fix the problem.

what kind of system?  HP laptop.

Linux midway.site 4.4.79-18.26-default #1 SMP Thu Aug 10 20:30:05 UTC 2017 (fa5a935) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> sphinx-build --version
Sphinx (sphinx-build) 1.3.1


-- 
~Randy