Re: [patch] 2.4.x ACPI updates

[Jeff Garzik]

Brown, Len wrote:
> The ISO_8859_1 acute accent, u with diaeresis, and registered sign, have been in Config.info since Feb 2002.
>
> Andy's tools seem to have extended them to 16-bit characters during a merge.  A "minor gaff"?  Okay, I guess that's fair.  He promises that he doesn't know how to type a latin capital A with a circumflex on his keyboard;-).
>
> Moving on...  Is the fix to restore the 8-bit characters, or use 7-bit characters?


Just sent a private message, but to relate the process to others as well...

The fix is to ensure that the ACPI updates sent to Marcelo never touch 
areas of Documentation/Configure.help that do not relate to ACPI ;-) 
Whatever characters are currently in Configure.help, just leave them be :)

	Jeff, being a UTF8 fan, is pained saying this...



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