[PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Wed Jul 25 10:13:20 AEST 2018


On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8
> > encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few
> > characters in a C comments, for historic reasons.
> > This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.
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> Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?

How would that be done?


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