All,
The current code base for U-Boot uses mixed encodings for non-ASCII files. Specifically, the distribution of encodings is, accoding to the 'file' utility of Ubuntu 11.04, out of the 6533 files, 61 are UTF-8 and 101 are ISO-8859.
There would be an interest in normalizing around either UTF or ISO, because for instance mixed encodings in a commit may prevent the display of patches in patchwork.
This could go either way of course : converting ISO files to UTF or vice versa. The goal of this RFC is to gather the pros and cons on UTF-8 vs ISO-8859; then I'll issue a patch to normalize encodings according to the discussion (1).
All comments welcome.
(1) note that by its very nature, the patch may quite well not appear in patchwork and/or look funny. :)
Amicalement,