[PATCH] UTF-8ifying the kernel source

[David Eger]

http://www.yak.net/random/linux-2.6.3-utf8-cleanup-auto.diff.bz2

Here you find the first of several patches to convert the kernel
source from ISO Latin-1 to UTF-8.  I'm working on the files that didn't
auto-convert easily; comments welcome ;-)

First, some statistics!

In Linux 2.6.3, there are:
15860 clean 7-bit ASCII files
274 text files are not 7-bit clean

38 of these 274 files are not auto-convertible -- either they are not ISO
Latin-1 or the high octets appear within the actual code (not comments).

This first patch applies to help files, documentation, and comments which
are trivially correct ISO Latin-1 => UTF-8 conversions.  The work I have
left to do is summarized below.

--dte


Un-needed/wrong non-ASCII characters (these fixes will form patch 2)
====================================================================
drivers/video/amifb.c	- +- sign?
Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol	- NBSP, but why?
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c	- NBSP, but why?
arch/v850/kernel/as85ep1.ld	- WTF? comments in some random charset...
drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-isr.c	- WTF? shit in the comments
include/asm-m68k/atarihw.h	- 0x94 - "cancel character"?
include/asm-m68k/atariints.h	- 0x94 - "cancel character"?
include/linux/802_11.h - why the non-standard dash?
scripts/docproc.c	- why the bizarre spelling for specific?
fs/ext2/xattr.c	- bad ASCII art
fs/ext3/xattr.c	- bad ASCII art
fs/afs/vlclient.h	- a degrees sign, but why?

Box-drawing ASCII art (these fixes will form patch 3)
=====================================================
Documentation/networking/tms380tr.txt	- DOS-style ASCII art
arch/arm/nwfpe/fpopcode.h	- line-drawing characters

C strings - (what to do?)
=========================
arch/ppc/platforms/proc_rtas.c	-  a C string containing "degrees"
arch/ppc64/kernel/rtas-proc.c	-  a C string containing "degrees"
drivers/macintosh/therm_adt7467.c	- degrees, MODULE_PARAM_DESC(), 
					  and a C string
drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c	- C strings
drivers/net/wireless/netwave_cs.c	- C strings	
drivers/scsi/dc395x.c	- C strings

Other - (i'd convert it, but...)
================================
drivers/pci/pci.ids	- I don't know what program processes this...
drivers/ieee1394/oui.db	- I don't know what program processes this...

Machine / charset specific shite - (does anything need to be done?)
===================================================================
arch/m68k/hp300/hp300map.map	- maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/char/defkeymap.map	- a map file... maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/char/qtronixmap.c_shipped	- maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/char/qtronixmap.map	- maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/tc/lk201-map.c_shipped	- maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/tc/lk201-map.map	- maps to "char"s.. grr
drivers/acorn/char/defkeymap-l7200.c	- maps to "char"s.. grr
arch/s390/kernel/ebcdic.c	- comments on a keymap table
drivers/video/console/font_8x16.c	- comments on a keymap table 
drivers/video/console/font_8x8.c	- comments on a keymap table 
drivers/video/console/font_pearl_8x8.c	- comments on a keymap table 
drivers/s390/ebcdic.c	- comments on a keymap table

Noise from userland (this I won't be touching)
==============================================
Documentation/networking/ethertap.txt	- random crap cat'd from /dev/tap0
Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt	- weird gdb output

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