Your title 'Use ASCII subset' is now at least a bit *closer* to describing what the patches are actually doing, but it's still a bit misleading because you're only doing it for *some* characters. And the wording is still indicative of a fundamentally *misguided* motivation for doing any of this. Your commit comments should be about fixing a specific thing, nothing to do with "use ASCII subset", which is pointless in itself. On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 14:50 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Such conversion tools - plus some text editor like LibreOffice or similar - have > a set of rules that turns some typed ASCII characters into UTF-8 alternatives, > for instance converting commas into curly commas and adding non-breakable > spaces. All of those are meant to produce better results when the text is > displayed in HTML or PDF formats. And don't we render our documentation into HTML or PDF formats? Are some of those non-breaking spaces not actually *useful* for their intended purpose? > While it is perfectly fine to use UTF-8 characters in Linux, and specially at > the documentation, it is better to stick to the ASCII subset on such > particular case, due to a couple of reasons: > > 1. it makes life easier for tools like grep; Barely, as noted, because of things like line feeds. > 2. they easier to edit with the some commonly used text/source > code editors. That is nonsense. Any but the most broken and/or anachronistic environments and editors will be just fine.
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