[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/5] board/armadeus: replace utf-8 graphic sympols by ascii characters

[Yann E. MORIN]

Peter, Thomas, Peter, All,

On 2019-05-18 23:36 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed,  8 May 2019 19:28:18 +0200
> Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net>
> > ---
> >  board/armadeus/readme.txt | 10 +++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Series applied to master. Thanks!

Sorry, but I still fail to see why we want to remove non-ascii chars,
especially in docs and the likes. The commit logs for these patches fail
to explain the problem they fix, if there is even a problem.

This whole "no UTF-8 chars patches" are totally nonsense nowadays. If
your system still can't display them properly, upgrade and get a decent
font.

Now, if I need to add a comment like:

    # As explained by Frédéric in [0], blurb da dee woops blabla...

then, check-package whines. While "Frédéric" can be easily asciified to
Frederic, this is not nice and there are a lot of names that can't be
easily asciified, like 李金福 or anyone whose language is not using a
latin script.

I agree that the unicode NO-BREAK-SPACE (U+00A0, UTF-8 C2A0) is nasty,
and should be replaced, but otherwise it feels like we're going
something like 30 years back in time...

BTW, a good editor can be made to report such "trolling" chars. For
example, there is a plugin for vim that can highlight such chars, like
NO-BREAK-SPACE " " (U+00A0) which is highlighted red for me here:
    https://github.com/vim-utils/vim-troll-stopper
And for emacs (untested, I don't use emacs):
    https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/highlight-chars.el

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

PS. Yes, I was the first one to report and fix U+00A0 (C2 A0) in
    5d436ac5a6 and 911ac036e0, but those were fixing real problems.
YEM.

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