[U-Boot] [PATCH] patman: encode CC list to UTF-8

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 25 April 2017 at 11:12, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 05:53:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > +Tom
> >
> > On 19 April 2017 at 07:24, Philipp Tomsich
> > <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This change encodes the CC list to UTF-8 to avoid failures on
> > > maintainer-addresses that include non-ASCII characters (observed on
> > > Debian 7.11 with Python 2.7.3).
> > >
> > > Without this, I get the following failure:
> > >   Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >     File "tools/patman/patman", line 159, in <module>
> > >       options.add_maintainers)
> > >     File "[snip]/u-boot/tools/patman/series.py", line 234, in MakeCcFile
> > >       print(commit.patch, ', '.join(set(list)), file=fd)
> > >   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
> > > from Heiko's email address:
> > >   [..., u'"Heiko St\xfcbner" <heiko at sntech.de>', ...]
> > >
> > > While with this change added this encodes to:
> > >   "=?UTF-8?q?Heiko=20St=C3=BCbner?= <heiko at sntech.de>"
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  tools/patman/series.py | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Please put this in a PR for me, along with any other critical fixes to
> the various python tools we have, thanks!
>
> And also, do we need to perhaps whack something at a higher level, and
> more consistently, about unicode?  This is, I gather, doing UTF-8 right.
> In buildman we have a few patches to just translate to latin-1 instead.
> We should do the same thing I think, and perhaps there's a higher level
> up in the code where we need to do it too?  I don't know..

Actually I don't think we are quite there yet. This really needs a
test with all the different places strings can come from, to make sure
patman does the right thing.

Regards,
Simon