On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:11:01PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > This patch is a port of the following commit from the Linux kernel: > > commit 15662b3e8644905032c2e26808401a487d4e90c1 > Author: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> > Date: Mon Oct 31 17:13:12 2011 -0700 > > checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs > > Some find using utf-8 in commit logs inappropriate. > > Some patch commit logs contain unintended utf-8 characters when doing > things like copy/pasting compilation output. > > Look for the start of any commit log by skipping initial lines that look > like email headers and "From: " lines. > > Stop looking for utf-8 at the first signature line. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> > Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Andy Whitcroft <a...@shadowen.org> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
This patch prevents including names with non-ASCII characters in the commit description. Some people care about the proper spelling of their names. Allowing UTF-8 in Signed-off-by and other headers isn't enough.
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