Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix UTF-8 encoding

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Mar 04 2015 - 10:02:19 EST


On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Nicolas Iooss wrote:

> Commit 41c9e95d641a ("MAINTAINERS: add Android driver entries")
> introduced non-UTF8 characters in MAINTAINERS file. This breaks tools
> like grep when using an UTF-8 locale:
>
> $ grep -n drivers/android MAINTAINERS
> Binary file MAINTAINERS matches
>
> Replacing the characters by their UTF-8 counterparts fixes grep.
>
> $ grep -n drivers/android MAINTAINERS
> 733:F: drivers/android/
>
> This also fixes the display of
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/MAINTAINERS?id=v3.19#n713
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 42f686f2e4b2..39187c2848e5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ F: staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-bfin-timer.c
>
> ANDROID DRIVERS
> M: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -M: Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M: Arve Hj??nnev??g <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't really call that an improvement.

The patch was sent as

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=y

'charset=y' (a) doesn't make any sense whatsoever (b) directly contradicts
the intent of the patch.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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