[PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Wed, 12 May 2021 10:14:44 -0400
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu> escreveu:

> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:50:04PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > v2:
> > - removed EM/EN DASH conversion from this patchset;  
> 
> Are you still thinking about doing the
> 
> EN DASH --> "--"
> EM DASH --> "---"
> 
> conversion?  

Yes, but I intend to submit it on a separate patch series, probably after
having this one merged. Let's first cleanup the large part of the 
conversion-generated UTF-8 char noise ;-)

> That's not going to change what the documentation will
> look like in the HTML and PDF output forms, and I think it would make
> life easier for people are reading and editing the Documentation/*
> files in text form.

Agreed. I'm also considering to add a couple of cases of this char:

	- U+2026 ('…'): HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS

As Sphinx also replaces "..." into HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS.

-

Anyway, I'm opting to submitting those in separate because it seems
that at least some maintainers added EM/EN DASH intentionally.

So, it may generate case-per-case discussions.

Also, IMO, at least a couple of EN/EM DASH cases would be better served 
with a single hyphen.

Thanks,
Mauro