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[86.7.189.148]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h9sm20117820wmb.35.2021.05.10.07.33.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 10 May 2021 07:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , David Woodhouse , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, coresight@lists.linaro.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org References: <2ae366fdff4bd5910a2270823e8da70521c859af.camel@infradead.org> <20210510135518.305cc03d@coco.lan> From: Edward Cree Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:33:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.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