[U-Boot] [RFC] Sort-of-poll about encoding for non-ASCII files

[Albert ARIBAUD]

All,

The current code base for U-Boot uses mixed encodings for non-ASCII 
files. Specifically, the distribution of encodings is, accoding to the 
'file' utility of Ubuntu 11.04, out of the 6533 files, 61 are UTF-8 and 
101 are ISO-8859.

There would be an interest in normalizing around either UTF or ISO, 
because for instance mixed encodings in a commit may prevent the display 
of patches in patchwork.

This could go either way of course : converting ISO files to UTF or vice 
versa. The goal of this RFC is to gather the pros and cons on UTF-8 vs 
ISO-8859; then I'll issue a patch to normalize encodings according to 
the discussion (1).

All comments welcome.

(1) note that by its very nature, the patch may quite well not appear in 
patchwork and/or look funny. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.