While UTF-8 characters can be used at the Linux documentation, the best is to use them only when ASCII doesn't offer a good replacement. So, replace the occurences of the following UTF-8 characters: - U+2014 ('—'): EM DASH Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst index 67ee3691f91f..c2d709467c68 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ comments that look like this:: The problem is the missing "*", which confuses the build system's simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been -present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing +present since that comment was added in 2016 - a full four years. Fixing it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is, and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The -- 2.30.2