On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 04:30:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 5:16 PM Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

OK, thank you for the info. Applied.

Ugh. Dmitry, please be more careful with author names.

Apparently you aren't in a proper utf-8 locale, and you messed up the
name in the git repository. So yoiu apparently tried to take KT Liao's
Chinese name: 廖崇榮, but did so in some wrong locale, and it ended up
being just '???' in the git repo.

And I only noticed when I did my shortlog for doing my 4.18-rc3 release notes.

I don't know what locale or tools you have, but please try to make
sure everything is utf-8 aware so that these kinds of name corruptions
don't happen..

Yeah, I noticed that when preparing pull request, but did not want to
rebase the branch that I always keep stable, sorry.

The reason it got messed up is I switched to pulling patches from
patchwork.kernel.org as it collects Acked-by and Reviewed-by tags so I
do not have to add them manually, but unfortunately it does not do
proper UTF-8:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10431971/

I have since reworked by scripts to only take changelog from patchwork,
and take author name/email from the mail message and using "git
mailinfo" which worked well before. Should not happen again.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry