Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Date: 2021-05-10 11:58:53
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On 10.05.21 12:26, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
As Linux developers are all around the globe, and not everybody has UTF-8 as their default charset, better to use UTF-8 only on cases where it is really needed. […] The remaining patches on series address such cases on *.rst files and inside the Documentation/ABI, using this perl map table in order to do the charset conversion: my %char_map = ( […] 0x2013 => '-', # EN DASH 0x2014 => '-', # EM DASH
I might be performing bike shedding here, but wouldn't it be better to replace those two with "--", as explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens For EM DASH there seems to be even "---", but I'd say that is a bit too much. Or do you fear the extra work as some lines then might break the 80-character limit then? Ciao, Thorsten