On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 13:55 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > This patch series is doing conversion only when using ASCII makes > more sense than using UTF-8. > > See, a number of converted documents ended with weird characters > like ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (U+FEFF) character. This specific > character doesn't do any good. > > Others use NO-BREAK SPACE (U+A0) instead of 0x20. Harmless, until > someone tries to use grep[1]. Replacing those makes sense. But replacing emdashes — which are a distinct character that has no direct replacement in ASCII and which people do *deliberately* use instead of hyphen-minus — does not. Perhaps stick to those two, and any cases where an emdash or endash has been used where U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS *should* have been used. And please fix your cover letter which made no reference to 'grep', and only presented a completely bogus argument for the change instead.