From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 11:08:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/5] board/armadeus: replace utf-8 graphic sympols by ascii characters In-Reply-To: <20190518233634.432e4b00@windsurf> References: <20190508172822.7929-1-ps.report@gmx.net> <20190518233634.432e4b00@windsurf> Message-ID: <20190519090853.GA4569@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Peter, Thomas, Peter, All, On 2019-05-18 23:36 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 19:28:18 +0200 > Peter Seiderer wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer > > --- > > board/armadeus/readme.txt | 10 +++++----- > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > Series applied to master. Thanks! Sorry, but I still fail to see why we want to remove non-ascii chars, especially in docs and the likes. The commit logs for these patches fail to explain the problem they fix, if there is even a problem. This whole "no UTF-8 chars patches" are totally nonsense nowadays. If your system still can't display them properly, upgrade and get a decent font. Now, if I need to add a comment like: # As explained by Fr?d?ric in [0], blurb da dee woops blabla... then, check-package whines. While "Fr?d?ric" can be easily asciified to Frederic, this is not nice and there are a lot of names that can't be easily asciified, like ??? or anyone whose language is not using a latin script. I agree that the unicode NO-BREAK-SPACE (U+00A0, UTF-8 C2A0) is nasty, and should be replaced, but otherwise it feels like we're going something like 30 years back in time... BTW, a good editor can be made to report such "trolling" chars. For example, there is a plugin for vim that can highlight such chars, like NO-BREAK-SPACE "?" (U+00A0) which is highlighted red for me here: https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper And for emacs (untested, I don't use emacs): https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/highlight-chars.el Regards, Yann E. MORIN. PS. Yes, I was the first one to report and fix U+00A0 (C2 A0) in 5d436ac5a6 and 911ac036e0, but those were fixing real problems. YEM. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'