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[86.7.189.148]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b10sm7116349wrr.27.2021.05.14.04.08.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 14 May 2021 04:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols To: David Woodhouse , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Mali DP Maintainers , 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-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-sgx@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org References: <20210514102118.1b71bec3@coco.lan> <61c286b7afd6c4acf71418feee4eecca2e6c80c8.camel@infradead.org> From: Edward Cree Message-ID: <8b8bc929-2f07-049d-f24c-cb1f1d85bbaa@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 12:08:36 +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: <61c286b7afd6c4acf71418feee4eecca2e6c80c8.camel@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 10:21 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> I do use a lot of UTF-8 here, as I type texts in Portuguese, but I rely >> on the US-intl keyboard settings, that allow me to type as "'a" for á. >> However, there's no shortcut for non-Latin UTF-codes, as far as I know. >> >> So, if would need to type a curly comma on the text editors I normally >> use for development (vim, nano, kate), I would need to cut-and-paste >> it from somewhere For anyone who doesn't know about it: X has this wonderful thing called the Compose key[1]. For instance, type ⎄--- to get —, or ⎄<" for “. Much more mnemonic than Unicode codepoints; and you can extend it with user-defined sequences in your ~/.XCompose file. (I assume Wayland supports all this too, but don't know the details.) On 14/05/2021 10:06, David Woodhouse wrote: > Again, if you want to make specific fixes like removing non-breaking > spaces and byte order marks, with specific reasons, then those make > sense. But it's got very little to do with UTF-8 and how easy it is to > type them. And the excuse you've put in the commit comment for your > patches is utterly bogus. +1 -ed [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key