On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:47:15 -0700 Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ascii is a lowest common denominator. I can view and manipulate the file > with any common text editor and common text utilities (eg, cat, grep, etc) > on pretty much any Linux system that I walk up to. I don't need to go > to any effort to try to figure out what a non-ascii character is (which > is exactly what prompted my patch -- I wanted to know what the character > my patch modifies is). It seems to me that we left the ASCII world behind some time ago; we need to be able to deal with a wider character set in general, so we shouldn't be afraid of using the expressive power it gives us. That said, unless you're a typographical purist, it clearly doesn't matter whether that file has a hyphen or an m-dash. So «it bugs Frank» is a good enough reason to apply the patch, and I'll do so. I may be more resistant in cases where it makes a difference, though. Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
