patch tracking issue

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jun 15 22:27:00 EST 2011


Dear Albert,

In message <4DF89B4E.1040705 at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> We should involve Wolfgang here, because ISTR there were already 
> discussions about encodings in U-Boot, with the conclusion at the time 
> that ISO-8859 was to be used:
> 
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/84647>

So far, ISO-8859(-1 or -15) have been used.

> Maybe finally we should move to UTF-8?

You mean we should set commitencoding in .git/config? We can do this,
but would this help in cases like this one, where the actual ISO-8859
character is present in the existing code?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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