From: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:33:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed65025c-1087-9672-7451-6d28e7ab8f92@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJk8LMFViV7Z3Uu7@casper.infradead.org>
On 10/05/2021 14:59, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Most of these
> UTF-8 characters come from latex conversions and really aren't
> necessary (and are being used incorrectly).
I fully agree with fixing those.
The cover-letter, however, gave the impression that that was not the
main purpose of this series; just, perhaps, a happy side-effect.
> You seem quite knowedgeable about the various differences. Perhaps
> you'd be willing to write a document for Documentation/doc-guide/
> that provides guidance for when to use which kinds of horizontal
> line?I have Opinions about the proper usage of punctuation, but I also know
that other people have differing opinions. For instance, I place
spaces around an em dash, which is nonstandard according to most
style guides. Really this is an individual enough thing that I'm not
sure we could have a "kernel style guide" that would be more useful
than general-purpose guidance like the page you linked.
Moreover, such a guide could make non-native speakers needlessly self-
conscious about their writing and discourage them from contributing
documentation at all. I'm not advocating here for trying to push
kernel developers towards an eats-shoots-and-leaves level of
linguistic pedantry; rather, I merely think that existing correct
usages should be left intact (and therefore, excising incorrect usage
should only be attempted by someone with both the expertise and time
to check each case).
But if you really want such a doc I wouldn't mind contributing to it.
-ed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-10 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-10 10:26 [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 52/53] docs: virt: kvm: avoid using UTF-8 chars Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 10:52 ` [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-05-10 11:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 12:27 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 10:54 ` David Woodhouse
2021-05-10 11:55 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 13:16 ` Edward Cree
2021-05-10 13:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 13:58 ` Edward Cree
2021-05-10 13:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-10 14:33 ` Edward Cree [this message]
2021-05-11 9:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 9:19 ` David Woodhouse
2021-05-10 13:49 ` David Woodhouse
2021-05-10 19:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-05-11 9:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 9:25 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-10 14:00 ` Ben Boeckel
2021-05-10 21:57 ` Adam Borowski
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