linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches - change non-ascii character to ascii

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Message-ID: <20170721112725.45f5f580@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:27:25 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     frowand.list@...il.com
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches - change non-ascii character
 to ascii

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:30:55 -0700
frowand.list@...il.com wrote:

> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst contains a non-ascii
> character.  Change it to the ascii equivalent.

You should know better than to tell somebody like me that a hyphen and an
m-dash are equivalent! :)

I don't have any real objection to this change, but I am curious: is the
m-dash creating a problem somewhere?  We have plenty of non-ASCII
characters in Documentation/ and beyond, why change this one?  Or to put
it another way, do you think we should have an ASCII-only policy for
documentation files?

Thanks,

jon