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Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.

From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:21:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
References: <20190820132152.24100-1-zackw@panix.com> <20190820132152.24100-4-zackw@panix.com> <470439858.757909.1566320907353@poczta.nazwa.pl>

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:09 PM Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> Zack, I think that your email software replaces the plain ASCII
> apostrophe character "'" (ASCII/Unicode 0x0027) with the right single
> quotation mark character "’" (Unicode 0x2019).  I am not sure if
> we want this in the git comments if possible to keep the plain
> ASCII.  This applies to other patches as well.

That was actually my text editor when I wrote the commit messages in
the first place, but it's a fair question anyway.  What _is_ our
policy on non-ASCII characters in general, and "smart" / "typographic"
quote marks in particular, in commit messages and ChangeLogs?

zw

References:
- [PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [PATCH 03/12] Don’t use the argument to time.
  - From: Rafal Luzynski

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