Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII

Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-05-10T11:51:10Z

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.

Or do you fear the extra work as some lines then might break the
80-character limit then?

Ciao, Thorsten