Re: [PATCH] scripts: get_maintainer.pl, remove \xa0 from the script

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Nov 04 2016 - 06:29:16 EST


On 11/04/2016, 11:27 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> My perl v5.24.0 complains when running the get_maintainer.pl script as
> follows:
> Unrecognized character \xA0; marked by <-- HERE after <-- HERE near column 1 at ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 277.
>
> It is weird to have ascii non-breaking spaces in a script, so do:
> s/\xa0/ /g
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> index 96cd97bcec4b..633f2dd3de27 100755
> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ $output_rolestats = 1 if ($interactive);
> $output_roles = 1 if ($output_rolestats);
>
> if ($sections || $letters ne "") {
> -ïïïï$sections = 1;

Too bad to use utf-8 encoding here. I have sent an iso-8859-2 variant in
the other mail.

thanks,
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js
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