On Tuesday 26 January 2021 00:33:29 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
On 1/25/21 11:13 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
Hello Heinrich!
Does this change mean that UTF-8 is now disallowed in U-Boot?
On Monday 25 January 2021 22:48:56 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
Avoid errors when generating the HTML documentation like:
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2This sounds like an incorrect configuration of tool which is generating HTML documentation.
Sphinx uses as default:
source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
utf-8-sig is IIRC UTF-8 encoding with leading BOM.
With Sphinx 3 on my machine I have no problem. But with Sphinx 2 on Gitlab an error is ejected for Unicode letters.
I do not know if elder Sphinx versions require a BOM to mark a file as UTF-8 when using utf-8-sig.
According to UNICODE standards, it is not required and moreover it is not recommended to use BOM in UTF-8.
So if some tool requires BOM in UTF-8 then it not compliant to UNICODE standard and I do not think it is a good idea to stop using UNICODE just because some tool cannot process UTF-8... But this is just my opinion and I do not know how Sphinx 2 works or how it is configured.
Maybe... can you check if it is possible to reconfigure Sphinx 2 to use UTF-8 without BOM? Is not there just option source_encoding = 'utf-8' ?