Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add support for long UTF-8 name

[Kory Maincent]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:26:22 +0100
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In case we have a long utf-8 name the second line will contain UTF-8
> code.
> 
> Here is an example:
>   From: =?UTF-8?q?K=C3=B6ry=20Maincent=20=28bla=20blou=20prout=20test=20?=
>    =?UTF-8?q?=29?= <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:57:00 +0100
>   Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add support for long UTF-8 name
> 
> On this rare case checkpatch is returning an error due to UTF-8 code in
> the name as it only decodes the From once the line is fully concatenated.
>   WARNING: From:/Signed-off-by: email name mismatch: 'From: "Köry Maincent
>   (bla blou prout test test=?UTF-8?q?=29?=" <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>'
>   != 'Signed-off-by: Köry Maincent (bla blou prout test test)
>   <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>'
> 
> Decode each line instead to be sure we don't have UTF-8 code in the
> email name check.

Hello,

Any news on this? I know it fixes a rare case but still, the issue is present.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
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