Em Mon, 10 May 2021 12:52:44 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On 10.05.21 12:26, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > As Linux developers are all around the globe, and not everybody has UTF-8 > > as their default charset, better to use UTF-8 only on cases where it is really > > needed. > > […] > > The remaining patches on series address such cases on *.rst files and > > inside the Documentation/ABI, using this perl map table in order to do the > > charset conversion: > > > > my %char_map = ( > > […] > > 0x2013 => '-', # EN DASH > > 0x2014 => '-', # EM DASH > I might be performing bike shedding here, but wouldn't it be better to > replace those two with "--", as explained in > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Approximating_the_em_dash_with_two_or_three_hyphens > > For EM DASH there seems to be even "---", but I'd say that is a bit too > much. Yeah, we can do, instead: 0x2013 => '--', # EN DASH 0x2014 => '---', # EM DASH I was actually in doubt about those ;-) Btw, when producing HTML documentation, Sphinx should convert: -- into EN DASH and: --- into EM DASH So, the resulting html will be identical. > Or do you fear the extra work as some lines then might break the > 80-character limit then? No, I suspect that the line size won't be an issue. Some care should taken when EN DASH and EM DASH are used inside tables. Thanks, Mauro
