Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-07-25 00:55:39
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:13:20 -0700 Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:
On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:quoted
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8 encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few characters in a C comments, for historic reasons. This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.[]quoted
Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?How would that be done?
I'm using this, seems to work.
if ! file $p | grep -q -P ", ASCII text|, UTF-8 Unicode text"
then
echo $p: weird charset
fi