Re: [PATCH] Check charset in scripts/checkpatch.pl

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:19:50AM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:03 -0400 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Reject all legacy 8-bit character sets and allow only ASCII or UTF-8 to
> > > be added to files or used in patch descriptions.
> > 
> > What is the reasoning behind this?
> 
> The character set used by the kernel is UTF-8. So we should check for
> people trying to add invalid stuff in other character sets. There's no
> way for them to _label_ legacy character sets as such; it's not like
> MIME email where we can use a different charset for every mail and
> expect people to cope. We need to be consistent.

Seconded.

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