Return-Path: Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:37702 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754371AbbI1Hd5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 03:33:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 01:33:50 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output Message-ID: <20150928013350.5956b0e0@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1443398992.2517.13.camel@decadent.org.uk> References: <1443398870.2517.11.camel@decadent.org.uk> <1443398992.2517.13.camel@decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ben Hutchings Cc: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsOpbXk=?= Bobbio , reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 01:09:52 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on > the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of > the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by > preference, or ASCII (LC_CTYPE=C) as a fallback. > > LC_CTYPE can normally be overridden by LC_ALL, but the top-level > Makefile unsets that. Applied to the docs tree (part 1 went in a few weeks ago). Added check-lc_ctype to scripts/.gitignore while I was at it. Thanks, jon