Re: [PATCH v2 30/40] docs: ABI: Use ASCII subset instead of UTF-8 alternate symbols

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 09:49:55 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:50:34PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/Markdown->ReST conversion
> and some automatic rules which exists on certain text editors like
> LibreOffice turned ASCII characters into some UTF-8 alternatives that
> are better displayed on html and PDF.
>
> While it is OK to use UTF-8 characters in Linux, it is better to
> use the ASCII subset instead of using an UTF-8 equivalent character
> as it makes life easier for tools like grep, and are easier to edit
> with the some commonly used text/source code editors.
>
> Also, Sphinx already do such conversion automatically outside literal blocks:
> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/smartquotes.html
>
> So, replace the occurences of the following UTF-8 characters:
>
> - U+2018 ('‘'): LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
> - U+2019 ('’'): RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I think I copy pasted the text from elsewhere, there is no way I managed
to type that 😄. Anyways, for the change in sysfs-devices-soc:

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> index ea999e292f11..7f90c6a44610 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> @@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ Description:
> (e.g. DB8500).
>
> On many of ARM based silicon with SMCCC v1.2+ compliant firmware
> - this will contain the JEDEC JEP106 manufacturer’s identification
> + this will contain the JEDEC JEP106 manufacturer's identification
> code. The format is "jep106:XXYY" where XX is identity code and
> YY is continuation code.
>
> - This manufacturer’s identification code is defined by one
> + This manufacturer's identification code is defined by one
> or more eight (8) bit fields, each consisting of seven (7)
> data bits plus one (1) odd parity bit. It is a single field,
> limiting the possible number of vendors to 126. To expand
> --
> 2.30.2
>

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Regards,
Sudeep