On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:49:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. I regularly use --- for em-dashes and -- for en-dashes. Markdown will automatically translate 3 ASCII hypens to em-dashes, and 2 ASCII hyphens to en-dashes. It's much, much easier for me to type 2 or 3 hypens into my text editor of choice than trying to enter the UTF-8 characters. If we can make sphinx do this translation, maybe that's the best way of dealing with these two characters? Cheers, - Ted
