linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/6] docs: extensions: don't use utf-8 syntax for descriptions

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Message-ID: <87v7tpei8f.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:24:00 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Linux Doc Mailing
 List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
 <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>, Vegard
 Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/6] docs: extensions: don't use utf-8 syntax for
 descriptions

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> None of the descriptions at the Sphinx extensions are using
> non-ascii characters, so no need to place them under u"""
> notation.
>
> Also, according with:
> 	https://docs.python.org/3/deprecations/pending-removal-in-3.16.html
>
> the 'u' format code is scheduled to be removed in Python 3.16.
>
> So, let's just use """.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>

...plus it's all utf8 by default anyway.  I'm kind of surprised we have
these, I guess they must be a Python 2 holdover.

jon