[PATCH 42/53] docs: doc-guide: contributing.rst: avoid using UTF-8 chars
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Mon May 10 2021 - 06:35:32 EST
While UTF-8 characters can be used at the Linux documentation,
the best is to use them only when ASCII doesn't offer a good replacement.
So, replace the occurences of the following UTF-8 characters:
- U+2014 ('—'): EM DASH
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
index 67ee3691f91f..c2d709467c68 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ comments that look like this::
The problem is the missing "*", which confuses the build system's
simplistic idea of what C comment blocks look like. This problem had been
-present since that comment was added in 2016 — a full four years. Fixing
+present since that comment was added in 2016 - a full four years. Fixing
it was a matter of adding the missing asterisks. A quick look at the
history for that file showed what the normal format for subject lines is,
and ``scripts/get_maintainer.pl`` told me who should receive it. The
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