On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:08:13PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Not trying to be contrary, but I would prefer to keep .rst files as much >> ASCII as possible. > > I don't think anybody is arguing otherwise. The question is whether > minusminus should be left as a pair of minus signs or whether it should > be converted into an en-dash. FWIW I think a pair of minus signs is never completely wrong in the output (even when the semantics is en-dash and the conversion is desirable) but occasionally converting a pair of minus signs to en-dash is incorrect. Thus retaining the "smart" conversion requires we use some form of escaping when we don't want double minus to be converted to en-dash. I'd lean towards "smartquotes = False". It'll still possible to add Unicode en-dash directly in the .rst if people really want that. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
