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Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering
Date 2017-07-20 03:00 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Your mailer is crap, and destroys utf-8 characters. In particular:
>
>     -M:     Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>

Using pseudo-MIME-encoding, that was actually (before my cut-and-paste
mangled it even more):

    Micha=c3=85=c2=82 Miros=c3=85=c2=82aw

> should be
>
>     -M:      Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>

And the correct utf-8 is

    Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw

and it *looks* like what happened is that something thought the input
was Latin1, and converted the Latin1 to UTF-8.

So the utf-8 character 'ł' (two bytes: =C5=82) was seen as two Latin1
character bytes: =c5 and =82.

And then each of those were converted mindlessly to utf-8, so the 'c5'
character became '=C3=85' and the '82' character became '=c2=82'.

So you have something that believes that a source file was latin1.

May I suggest just making absolutely *everything* on your system use a
utf-8 locale?

Because in this day and age, anything but utf-8 is just woefully
broken crud. "Just say no".

               Linus

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Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-19 23:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 02:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-07-20 02:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 02:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-07-20 02:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 02:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 02:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 03:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-07-20 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-20 03:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-20 05:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 06:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-07-20 06:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 07:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-20 06:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 07:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-07-20 13:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-20 18:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-20 20:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-21 01:00 +0200

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