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 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).

at any rate, it's easy enough to fix: iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 MAINTAINERS > f && mv f MAINTAINERS iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 CREDITS > f && mv f CREDITS ... and probably some more files ...

as for why i care: it's a lot easier to copy & paste contact information from these files when creating commit messages if i didnt have to manually fix the broken encoding ... -mike