On 10/27/2013 3:47 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: > Yes, the last time I looked at this all non-ASCII characters caused this > problem, including characters required to write proper French and > Spanish docs, as well as other characters like the trademark and > copyright symbols.
My personal recommendation for English-language versions is to not use any non-ASCII characters but instead use proper numeric character references (NCR) and/or character entity references (CER) just as in SGML, HTML, and XML documents. An easy rule to remember would be, if the character can't be entered in a single key stroke using an ASCII keyboard, then use the proper NCR/ECR. Just because many O/Ses provide tricks for embedding non-ASCII characters isn't a good enough reason to do it. Unfortunately, this is a onerous solution for non-English versions. I don't know the answer there, but at least they get to start from clean ascii files. Getting away from ASCII editors and using XML/SGML-aware editors would help. > > While I could push a commit to change all the non-breaking spaces to > literal spaces, it feels like this does not solve anything. I'm not convinced that many of the non-breaking spaces in the docs sources are necessary, but assuming they represent the author's intent, I think the solution I already demonstrated with NCR/CER is the better choice. But that's just me. I suffered through all this character encoded crap when I was the editor of IGES and STEP documentation back in the 1980s-1990s. It's a pain to get submissions from dozens of authors and try to make sense of them. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
