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

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Message-ID: <b3366f65-35e1-8f1a-d8d8-ebd444c9499d@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 14:58:59 +0100
From:   Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII

On 10/05/2021 14:38, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 10 May 2021 14:16:16 +0100
> Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com> escreveu:
>> But what kinds of things with × or — in are going to be grept for?
> 
> Actually, on almost all places, those aren't used inside math formulae, but
> instead, they describe video some resolutions:
Ehh, those are also proper uses of ×.  It's still a multiplication,
 after all.

> it is a way more likely that, if someone wants to grep, they would be 
> doing something like this, in order to get video resolutions:
Why would someone be grepping for "all video resolutions mentioned in
 the documentation"?  That seems contrived to me.

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