Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

[Randy Dunlap]

On 08/30/17 16:04, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 08/30/17 16:01, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 08/30/17 15:31, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:15:53 -0300
>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suspect that the problem is not related to the version, but to
>>>> what you might have set on LANG.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe if we add something like:
>>>> 	LANG=C.utf-8
>>>>
>>>> to the Documentation/Makefile 
>>>
>>> That's worth a try; Randy, can you give it a quick go?
>>
>> Yes, that fixes it for me.  Thanks.
> 
> Wait!  I forgot to unpatch demux.h.  I'll test again now....

OK, still works for me.

> 
>>>> or adding:
>>>>
>>>> 	.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
>>>>
>>>> as the first line on the *.rst file that include the kernel-doc 
>>>> directive would solve the issue.
>>>
>>> I guess I don't see how that would help, instead.  Emacs reads that line,
>>> but it's not involved in the problem.
>>>
>>> I wish I could reproduce this, then we could see what in that massive
>>> try..except block in kerneldoc.py is throwing the exception.  Putting in
>>> an explicit decode call might be enough to make the problem go away.
>>
>>
>>
> 
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~Randy