Em Mon, 10 May 2021 14:49:44 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 13:55 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > This patch series is doing conversion only when using ASCII makes > > more sense than using UTF-8. > > > > See, a number of converted documents ended with weird characters > > like ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (U+FEFF) character. This specific > > character doesn't do any good. > > > > Others use NO-BREAK SPACE (U+A0) instead of 0x20. Harmless, until > > someone tries to use grep[1]. > > Replacing those makes sense. But replacing emdashes — which are a > distinct character that has no direct replacement in ASCII and which > people do *deliberately* use instead of hyphen-minus — does not. > > Perhaps stick to those two, and any cases where an emdash or endash has > been used where U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS *should* have been used. Ok. I'll rework the series excluding EM/EN DASH chars from it. I'll then apply manually the changes for EM/EN DASH chars (probably on a separate series) where it seems to fit. That should make easier to discuss such replacements. > And please fix your cover letter which made no reference to 'grep', and > only presented a completely bogus argument for the change instead. OK! Regards, Mauro
