[U-Boot] proper file encoding

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200902140125.47790.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> 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 

There is no formal declaration yet, but so far encoding has always
been iso-8859-1 (resp. iso-8859-15).

> 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).

I prefer to stick with iso-8859-1.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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