Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:00:05 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Replace the extended ASCII copyright char to
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:25:41PM +0800, Li Hong wrote:

> A copyright extended ASCII char (0xa9) in kernel/perf_event.c makes my utf-8
> compatible vim think it is a binary file. It is better to either use a utf-8
> sequence 0xc20xa9 or just normal copyright ASCII chars '(C)'.

The trouble is, I've been informed that "(C)" has no legal meaning --
it is not equivalent to the C-in-a-circle copyright symbol.  That's
why I put the extended ASCII character in there.  I wouldn't mind the
utf-8 sequence instead though.

Paul.
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