Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread David Woodhouse
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

[Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread David Woodhouse
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

[Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 09/40] docs: driver-api: media: drivers: Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/Markdown->ReST conversion and some automatic rules which exists on certain text editors like LibreOffice turned ASCII characters into some UTF-8 alternatives that are better displayed on html and PDF. While it is OK to use UTF-8 characters in Linux, i

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
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

Re: [Mjpeg-users] [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

2021-05-12 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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