Em Fri, 14 May 2021 12:08:36 +0100
Edward Cree escreveu:
> For anyone who doesn't know about it: X has this wonderful thing called
> the Compose key[1]. For instance, type ⎄--- to get —, or ⎄<" for “.
> Much more mnemonic than Unicode codepoints; and you can extend it with
> user-defined seque
> On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 10:21 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> I do use a lot of UTF-8 here, as I type texts in Portuguese, but I rely
>> on the US-intl keyboard settings, that allow me to type as "'a" for á.
>> However, there's no shortcut for non-Latin UTF-codes, as far as I know.
>>
>> So,
On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 10:21 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 12 May 2021 18:07:04 +0100
> David Woodhouse escreveu:
>
> > On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 14:50 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Such conversion tools - plus some text editor like LibreOffice or
> > > similar - have
>
Em Wed, 12 May 2021 18:07:04 +0100
David Woodhouse escreveu:
> On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 14:50 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Such conversion tools - plus some text editor like LibreOffice or similar
> > - have
> > a set of rules that turns some typed ASCII characters into UTF-8
> > alte
On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 17:17 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 12 May 2021 10:14:44 -0400
> "Theodore Ts'o" escreveu:
>
> > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:50:04PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > v2:
> > > - removed EM/EN DASH conversion from this patchset;
> >
> > Are you stil
Your title 'Use ASCII subset' is now at least a bit *closer* to
describing what the patches are actually doing, but it's still a bit
misleading because you're only doing it for *some* characters.
And the wording is still indicative of a fundamentally *misguided*
motivation for doing any of this. Y
Em Wed, 12 May 2021 10:14:44 -0400
"Theodore Ts'o" escreveu:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:50:04PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > v2:
> > - removed EM/EN DASH conversion from this patchset;
>
> Are you still thinking about doing the
>
> EN DASH --> "--"
> EM DASH --> "---"
>
> conver
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:50:04PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> v2:
> - removed EM/EN DASH conversion from this patchset;
Are you still thinking about doing the
EN DASH --> "--"
EM DASH --> "---"
conversion? That's not going to change what the documentation will
look like in the HTML a
This series contain basically a cleanup from all those years of converting
files to ReST.
During the conversion period, several tools like LaTeX, pandoc, DocBook
and some specially-written scripts were used in order to convert
existing documents.
Such conversion tools - plus some text editor like
