[U-Boot] [PATCH] bmp_logo: Check return value of fread()

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Mike,

> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 05:11:01 Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>
>> >> The copies cc-ed to myself come through just fine as utf-8 fwiw.  Does
>> >> that imply the denx.de servers convert unicode messages to base64?
>> >
>> > This is in the headers of your message:
>> >
>> > 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> > 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> >
>> > I don't think anything converted anything. It arrived as you sent it.
>> >
>> > You just don't see it.
>> >
>> > The problem for me is that I cannot use standard tools (like grep) on
>> > such messages.
>>
>> Isn't it possible that you un-base64 such mails locally in your mail
>> system?  In the long run I'd really like to be able to handle Unicode in
>> U-Boot (sources) and thus also on the mailing list.
>>
>> It is the 2000s after all with people from all over the world
>> contributing to U-Boot and we're limiting ourselves to the english
>> typographic letters :(
>
> i dont think we want localized comments/output without an english equivalent.  
> i.e. if someone proposed an optional gettext() kind of thing so the output of 
> u-boot were localized, that may make sense.

Note that I explicitely hinted at the source code.

> mixing language comments makes it kind of hard for people to coordinate/review 
> things as then they'd be required to know multiple languages.  atm, english is 
> the only thing required (well, and coding ability of course).

I wasn't even thinking about language comments but simply names
especially in git-commit messages.

Obviously I'm lucky that I don't have an umlaut in my name, but if I
had, what would I do?  Resort to latin-1?  What about French, Russian,
etc. developers who want to see their "real" name in the logs?

Cheers
  Detlev

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