netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Replace some bad characters on documents

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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 11:48:04 +0100
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Replace some bad characters on documents

On Sun, 2021-05-16 at 12:18 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST 
> conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
> aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause 
> troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.

Better.

But you still don't say *why* it matters whether given characters are
trivial to reach with standard keyboard layouts, or specify *what*
'troubles' the offending characters cause.

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