[PATCH i-g-t v2] tools/intel_vbt_decode: convert copyright signs from latin1 to utf8

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, Kamil Konieczny <kamil.konieczny at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!

BR,
Jani.


>
> 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
>> 

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel