Non-UTF-8 characters are a problem for some terminals and also make greping harder than necessary - this only switches the copyright sign to the common (C).
Reported-by: Markus Kreidl <mkre...@opentech.at> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.h...@hofr.at> --- Found by checkpatch --strict: CHECK: Invalid UTF-8, patch and commit message should be encoded in UTF-8 #7: FILE: kernel/events/callchain.c:7: + * Copyright � 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <pau...@au1.ibm.com> Before I start generating sets of patches that fix encoding issues I would like to know if that is going to be accepted at all - the background is that it causes quite a bit of trouble when automating tools if these encoding problems make using simple tools hard (e.g. grep) and thus make automation a lot more complicated that necessary. It seems to me that the codingstyle does not mandate UTF-8 but there are a few places where it is "suggested" like in: Documentation/process/email-clients.rst This really should not have any impact on the code but patch was compile-tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) (issues two sparse warnings - not related though) Patch is against 4.12-rc1 (localversion-next is next-20170519) kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c index 1b2be63..357f488 100644 --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra - * Copyright � 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <pau...@au1.ibm.com> + * Copyright (C) 2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <pau...@au1.ibm.com> * * For licensing details see kernel-base/COPYING */ -- 2.1.4
