Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: correctly parse UTF-8 encoded names in files

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Alvin Šipraga <ALSI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry to be a nuisance, but could you please have another look below and
> reconsider this patch? Otherwise NAK is fine, but I wanted to follow up
> on this as it solves an actual, albeit minor, issue for people with
> unusual names when sending and receiving patches.

The patch seems bogus, because it shouldn't have any "Latin" encoding
issues at all.

Opening as utf8 makes sense, but the "Latin" part of the regular
expressions seem bogus.

IOW, isn't '\p{L}' the right pattern for a "letter"? Isn't that what
we actually care about here?

Replacing one locale bug with just another locale bug seems pointless.

           Linus