From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thomas Adam" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] manual: Fix or remove em dashes. Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:41:41 +0100 Message-ID: <18071eea0710091441n717c0a99p58a9b585d15cc778@mail.gmail.com> References: <20071009205755.GB31317@ins.uni-bonn.de> <20071009210530.GH31317@ins.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Ralf Wildenhues" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 09 23:41:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IfMpv-00035m-Vr for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:41:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755401AbXJIVlq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755286AbXJIVlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:41:45 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.184]:33631 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754445AbXJIVlo (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:41:44 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z23so2300fkz for ; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:41:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=TGhz7HpQfvCxAzBKDY3XZT2odAkc4sk3RZpN2xEkUfM=; b=DKm4CZJQiPug0O2w8jqOAC13bK6jhs6pbJNwVCnuT90NmDZl1IZjceLhkI6M1wANpFmenqfBS94C+NaZBp1TD4zhKnpFjMDO3uzrdhXLZVB4JvG2oHLyonumHkPDANjHfM1fx+8YrE4h1A/Bzk3RR5LdBdKCEnpLgGFUIHAZaG8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=b3mB/UvWj0F0hwUhkKex5GdC4WTlBL7hgrRdwgn0BLyhPaZcFgw79zWysdhIE59KBR+zr2xWrR5YfzNQulWYpzYu1sLcDbwZnm0f09SgLTsmTs2cgM6jq8o9pvkFhCfskQNXrDIyBHm+oCxsZCA/ozpWbwiMhKf9T8cEdhBCKmQ= Received: by 10.82.165.13 with SMTP id n13mr28974501bue.1191966101993; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.177.16 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:41:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20071009210530.GH31317@ins.uni-bonn.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello -- On 09/10/2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > em dashes were used inconsistently in the manual. > This changes them to the way they are used in US English. I find this particular patch to be rather odd; there is nothing invalid in the way the em-dashes are used. Why is it US English is somehow de facto over, say, proper English? :) -- Thomas Adam