Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932999Ab0D3S5B (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:57:01 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:60359 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758447Ab0D3RGj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:06:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD919F5.1080508@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:32:37 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mackerras CC: trivial@kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251 References: <4BD80037.9060704@kernel.org> <20100428215550.GB5597@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20100428215550.GB5597@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 25 Hello, On 04/28/2010 11:55 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Trouble is, the lawyers tell us that "(C)" is legally meaningless. Ah... okay. > However, "Copyright" on its own is enough, so if the copyright symbol > annoys you, we could just remove it. That's relieving. It sure is an annoyance for anyone who's not on latin-1. It's an outright invalid character and as you've seen it's not easy to even send a patch changing it. IMHO, if it were something which couldn't be avoided at all, encoding it using utf-8 would be much more appropriate. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/