On 5/6/21 11:39 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Thu, 6 May 2021 14:21:01 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
>>
>> Just another question: ("inquiring minds want to know")
>>
>> Why is/are some docs using U+2217 '*' instead of ASCII '*'?
>> E.g., Documentation/block/cdrom-standard.rst.
>
> The cdrom doc is a very special case: it was originally written in LaTeX.
Yes, I recall that. I even edited it at least once.
> I don't remember any other document in LaTeX inside the Kernel docs during
> the conversions I made. See:
> e327cfcb2542 ("docs: cdrom-standard.tex: convert from LaTeX to ReST")
>
> In order to convert it to .rst, I used some tool to first turn it
> into plain text (probably LaTeX, but I don't remember anymore), and then
> I manually reviewed the entire file, adding ReST tags where needed.
>
> I didn't realize that utf-8 chars were used instead of normal ASCII chars,
> as both appear the same when editing it[1].
>
> [1] I use Fedora here. Fedora changed the default charset to utf-8 a long
> time ago.
>
> Anyway, we should be able of get rid of weird UTF-8 chars from it with:
>
> $ iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT Documentation/cdrom/cdrom-standard.rst
>
> I'll prepare a patch fixing it. Some care should be taken, however, as
> it has two places where UTF-8 chars should be used[2].
Thanks!
> [2] There are two German person names that use UTF-8 chars:
> - 'o' + umlat;
> - a LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S (Eszett)
My patch preparation notes say that the cdrom .rst file contains
"fancy '*'" (not ASCII) instead of ASCII '*' in several places.
Also there are several files that contain U+00A0 non-breaking space
where it is not needed AFAICT.
--
~Randy
