On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 02:49:13PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote: > > > On 4/15/24 14:22, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > On 15.04.24 13:35, Michal Simek wrote: > > > Some of Kconfigs are using utf-8 encoding because of used chars. Convert > > > all of them to ascii enconging. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > > > > There are other files which are using utf-8 enconding and pretty much I > > > think we should convert all of them because there is no reason to use > > > utf-8 > > > encoding. > > > > Hello Michal, > > > > The commit message does not explain why we should refrain from using UTF-8. > > that's a good point. I was thinking about the reason for it and pretty much > wanted to get feedback from Tom about it. > > In doc/develop/sending_patches.rst is said that patches should be sent as > plain text but encoding is not specified. Traditionally this was ASCII and I > pretty much don't see the reason to use UTF encoding (even my name has > special czech char which I am not using, the same is for Marek Vasut).
My point of view is that I think ASCII should be used in general, with the exception being names (I won't force people to ASCII-ize their names, modern systems handle UTF-8 just fine). I actually don't know if we should also exclude rST doc files from this rule as well as UTF-8 should render fine and for example "°C" reads nicely in web/PDF/etc. -- Tom
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