Bug 225517 - kernel-doc contains iso-8859-1 encoded files
Summary: kernel-doc contains iso-8859-1 encoded files
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-31 01:39 UTC by Till Maas
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-03-19 21:53:07 UTC
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Description Till Maas 2007-01-31 01:39:12 UTC 
kernel-doc contains a lot of not utf-8 encoded files, e.g. iso-8859-1 encoded
files. Here is a not complete list:

$ file /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-*/Documentation/{*,*/*}  | grep ISO
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt:                
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/java.txt:                       
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt:                
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/pcieaer-howto.txt:              
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/sonypi.txt:                     
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/crypto/api-intro.txt:           
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt:           
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb:             
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt:             
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt:                   
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/adm1026:                  
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/gl518sm:                  
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/lm83:                     
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/sis5595:                  
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/via686a:                  
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/hwmon/w83792d:                  
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol:               
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/i2o/README:                     
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/isdn/CREDITS:                   
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/isdn/README:                    
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/isdn/README.icn:                
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/m68k/README.buddha:             
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/6pack.txt:           
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt:           
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt:     
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/slicecom.hun:        
                ISO-8859 C++ program text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt:        
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/networking/tms380tr.txt:        
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt:               
                Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt:          
                Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt:               
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/scsi/st.txt:                    
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt:               
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/usb/CREDITS:                    
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt:             
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt:           
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/video4linux/ov511.txt:          
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2:     
                ISO-8859 English text
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.19/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran:              
                ISO-8859 English text
dvb/README.dvb-usb:                              ISO-8859 English text
fb/framebuffer.txt:                              ISO-8859 English text
fb/sstfb.txt:                                    ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/adm1026:                                   ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/gl518sm:                                   ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/lm83:                                      ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/sis5595:                                   ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/via686a:                                   ISO-8859 English text
hwmon/w83792d:                                   ISO-8859 English text
i2c/i2c-protocol:                                ISO-8859 English text
i2o/README:                                      ISO-8859 English text
isdn/CREDITS:                                    ISO-8859 English text
isdn/README:                                     ISO-8859 English text
isdn/README.icn:                                 ISO-8859 English text
m68k/README.buddha:                              ISO-8859 English text
networking/6pack.txt:                            ISO-8859 English text
networking/e1000.txt:                            ISO-8859 English text
networking/packet_mmap.txt:                      ISO-8859 English text
networking/slicecom.hun:                         ISO-8859 C++ program text
networking/slicecom.txt:                         ISO-8859 English text
networking/tms380tr.txt:                         ISO-8859 English text
power/swsusp.txt:                                Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text
s390/Debugging390.txt:                           Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text
scsi/aha152x.txt:                                ISO-8859 English text
scsi/st.txt:                                     ISO-8859 English text
scsi/tmscsim.txt:                                ISO-8859 English text
usb/CREDITS:                                     ISO-8859 English text
usb/usb-serial.txt:                              ISO-8859 English text
video4linux/meye.txt:                            ISO-8859 English text
video4linux/ov511.txt:                           ISO-8859 English text
video4linux/README.pvrusb2:                      ISO-8859 English text
video4linux/Zoran:                               ISO-8859 English text
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2007-02-03 20:55:17 UTC 
they don't contain any characters that can't be represented by iso8859 afaics,
so why is this a problem ?
Comment 2 Till Maas 2007-02-04 12:00:01 UTC 
The default encoding in Fedora is UTF-8, so when one views one of the non UTF-8
encoded files with less, the non ascii characters are not displayed correctly.
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2007-03-19 21:53:07 UTC 
Feel free to send a series of patches to linux-kernel.org
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