Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200902140125.47790.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
is there any statements that i cannot find dictating the proper encoding of files ? considering git itself whines when things are not proper utf8 encoded, i'd expect that this would carry over to the files in u-boot itself. for example, the MAINTAINERS and the CREDITS files are both using iso-8859-1 encoding. this can readily be seen with people who have umlauts in their
There is no formal declaration yet, but so far encoding has always been iso-8859-1 (resp. iso-8859-15).
names, although some places have been avoided by using the ASCII form of "oe" and "ue" rather than ö and ü. i'd certainly prefer if we take a hard stance on documentation and similar files by requiring unicode encoding. i'd prefer all files be unicode, but i wouldnt care nearly as much with source code (comments and such).
I prefer to stick with iso-8859-1.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk