> > Thanks for reporting, I obviously didn't notice. Well, technically, > > commit messages can be UTF8, so not really an error. However, it will > > probably break lots of homebrew scripts, so a checkpatch warning it is, > > then? > > Not checkpatch, but my own script that checks some things about Fixes > tags (attached). Interestingly, my script does allow some other Unicode > things (like matching quotes) ...
I wondered if it makes sense to add a warning to checkpatch; but on second thought, the tags may include UTF8 anyhow for proper author names. So, maybe we should be generous in what we accept and simply update our tooling?
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