Re: [PATCH 39/53] docs: dev-tools: testing-overview.rst: avoid using UTF-8 chars

[David Gow]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:27 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---

Oh dear, I do have a habit of overusing em-dashes. I've no problem in
theory with exchanging them for an ASCII approximation.
I suppose there's a reason it's the one dash to rule them all: :-)
https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/727888721312260096/photo/1

>  Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
> index b5b46709969c..8adffc26a2ec 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
> @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ frameworks. These both provide infrastructure to help make running tests and
>  groups of tests easier, as well as providing helpers to aid in writing new
>  tests.
>
> -If you're looking to verify the behaviour of the Kernel — particularly specific
> -parts of the kernel — then you'll want to use KUnit or kselftest.
> +If you're looking to verify the behaviour of the Kernel - particularly specific
> +parts of the kernel - then you'll want to use KUnit or kselftest.

As Marco pointed out, having multiple HYPHEN-MINUS symbols in a row is
probably a better replacement, as it does distinguish the em-dash from
smaller dashes better.
However, I need three for sphinx to output an em-dash here (2 hyphens
only gives me an en-dash).

So, if we want to get rid of the UTF-8 em-dash, my preferences would
be (in descending order):
1. Three hyphens: '---' (sphinx generates an em-dash)
2. Two hyphens: '--' (worst case, an en-dash surrounded by spaces --
as sphinx generates for me -- is still readable, and it's still
readable as an em-dash in plain text)
3. One hyphen as in this patch (which I don't like as much, but will
no doubt learn to live with)

But it looks like you've got several similar comments on other patches
in this series, so I'm happy for you to use whatever ends up being
agreed upon generally.

Cheers,
-- David