Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933022AbXFHOmf (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:42:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754678AbXFHOm0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:42:26 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:57195 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753638AbXFHOmZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:42:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:42:31 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Alan Cox , jcm@jonmasters.org, Jan Engelhardt , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Joel Schopp , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 Message-ID: <20070608144230.GA5500@stusta.de> References: <9a8748490706060205y1fc8e354p4af7426fd76dd816@mail.gmail.com> <20070607193413.GR5500@stusta.de> <20070607232248.332edee8@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607232152.GU5500@stusta.de> <20070608004117.57868755@the-village.bc.nu> <20070608000455.GW5500@stusta.de> <20070608115219.694c642d@the-village.bc.nu> <20070608123942.GZ5500@stusta.de> <9a8748490706080734h6ce5959fq6e7cb802d9a555cc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <9a8748490706080734h6ce5959fq6e7cb802d9a555cc@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1905 Lines: 50 On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 08/06/07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [snip] >> >> It's not only about MODULE_AUTHOR, if you consider it rude to limit >> people's names to ASCII, then don't forget that we have printk's like >> Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones >> >> What happens if the maintainer changes and it's now >> Linux agpgart interface v0.103 (c) Dave Ønes >> >> Does the console handle it correctly during boot? >> Can all tools that process the syslog cope with it? >> >> Perhaps the answer is in both cases "yes", but it's a completely >> untested area. >> >> We really must have all bugs shaken out and all users using fixed tools >> _before_ we can start outputting UTF-8 - limiting people's names to >> ASCII in not ideal, but IMHO causing breakages for users is a much >> bigger problem. > > I haven't looked at it in depth yet, but it would seem we already have > a few files that need to be looked at with this in mind. Looks like > it's not exactely a new problem (although all the following could be > in comments of course)... >... They should all be in comments, and all UTF-8 I've ever seen in such files was only in comments (mostly author names). So yes, adding UTF-8 to program code will result in new problems. If you find any source file that contains UTF-8 outside of comments please complain loudly. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/