[PATCH i-g-t v2] tools/intel_vbt_decode: convert copyright signs from latin1 to utf8
Kamil Konieczny
kamil.konieczny at linux.intel.com
Wed Aug 20 08:58:03 UTC 2025
Hi Jani,
On 2025-08-20 at 10:24:05 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Various tools trip over with latin1 characters in the source, as
> nowadays everything pretty much expects utf8.
>
> For example, [1] fails to apply in both Patchwork and b4, because
> somewhere along the way, the latin1 copyright sign has in fact been
> automagically converted to utf8, and the source still has latin1.
>
> Instead of debugging legacy encodings and conversions, just convert the
> remaining latin1 files to utf8 using iconv.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/7090e70d712c94aed53f52c49a8155eb4c6b966c.1755175663.git.jani.nikula@intel.com/
>
> Cc: Kamil Konieczny <kamil.konieczny at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamil Konieczny <kamil.konieczny at linux.intel.com>
Thank you for a fix, I will merge it soon with small change in
subject, s/sings/sign/ as this is only one file and one char.
Regards,
Kamil
>
> ---
>
> v2: Rebase, intel_bios.h no longer exists.
>
> I'll be trying 'git send-email --8bit-encoding=iso-8859-1' on this
> one. Fingers crossed.
> ---
> tools/intel_vbt_decode.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/intel_vbt_decode.c b/tools/intel_vbt_decode.c
> index 6882ae1d2f63..a4e76b7559d2 100644
> --- a/tools/intel_vbt_decode.c
> +++ b/tools/intel_vbt_decode.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * Copyright © 2006 Intel Corporation
> + * Copyright © 2006 Intel Corporation
> *
> * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> --
> 2.47.2
>
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