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

2021-05-11 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Mon, 10 May 2021 14:49:44 +0100 David Woodhouse escreveu: > 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 cha

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

2021-05-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
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 c

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

2021-05-11 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2021-05-11 at 11:00 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Yet, this series has two positive side effects: > > - it helps people needing to touch the documents using non-utf8 locales[1]; > - it makes easier to grep for a text; > > [1] There are still some widely used distros nowadays (LT

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

2021-05-11 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Mon, 10 May 2021 15:22:02 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" escreveu: > 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

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

2021-05-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:26:12PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > There are several UTF-8 characters at the Kernel's documentation. [...] > Other UTF-8 characters were added along the time, but they're easily > replaceable by ASCII chars. > > As Linux developers are all around the globe, an

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

2021-05-11 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Mon, 10 May 2021 15:33:47 +0100 Edward Cree escreveu: > On 10/05/2021 14:59, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Most of these > > UTF-8 characters come from latex conversions and really aren't > > necessary (and are being used incorrectly). > I fully agree with fixing those. > The cover-letter, howev