Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-11 Thread Petro Karashchenko
I see that those comments are there starting from the initial commit. Maybe f...@feedforward.com.cn can update those comments to something readable (added to recipients list)? Best regards, Petro пн, 10 жовт. 2022 р. о 19:05 Fotis Panagiotopoulos пише: > I used the following two commands to che

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Fotis Panagiotopoulos
I used the following two commands to check for non-ASCII characters within the codebase: find . -name "*.h" -exec grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" {} \; find . -name "*.c" -exec grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" {} \; The problematic characters are very few. I could only see two nam

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Fotis Panagiotopoulos
> nxstyle should only complain if this is a source or build file, right? > And only if if the unicode is outside of a comment. Unicode characters > are useful in .txtf, .md, a probably other file typles and also in code > comments. Of course I am talking strictly about .h/.c files. Documentation

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Gregory Nutt
I am not a attorney, but I seem to recall that a legal reference reference to a copyright or a trademark require the © and small tm superscript . This -- plus the names that Brennan mentions -- are some of the reasons why unicode really needs to be permitted within comments.  None of these sh

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Gregory Nutt
nxstyle should only complain if this is a source or build file, right?  And only if if the unicode is outside of a comment.  Unicode characters are useful in .txtf, .md, a probably other file typles and also in code comments. There are flags in nxstyle that tells if you the type of file (by e

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Brennan Ashton
Some of these are are people's names or in documentation, I don't see any reason to update that. Things like mu or I2C seems reasonable to convert for searchability. --Brennan On Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 8:33 AM Fotis Panagiotopoulos wrote: > Shall I enhance nxstyle to check for this? Is this the c

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Fotis Panagiotopoulos
Shall I enhance nxstyle to check for this? Is this the correct place for this check? On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:30 PM Alin Jerpelea wrote: > Let's remove them! > > Thanks for looking into this issue > > Best Regards > Alin > > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, 17:25 Alan C. Assis, wrote: > > > Agree! It is b

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Alin Jerpelea
Let's remove them! Thanks for looking into this issue Best Regards Alin On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, 17:25 Alan C. Assis, wrote: > Agree! It is better to avoid it. > > On 10/10/22, Fotis Panagiotopoulos wrote: > > Hello! > > > > A few weeks ago I had some problems with a static analysis tool that > >

Re: Unicode characters in codebase.

2022-10-10 Thread Alan C. Assis
Agree! It is better to avoid it. On 10/10/22, Fotis Panagiotopoulos wrote: > Hello! > > A few weeks ago I had some problems with a static analysis tool that > couldn't parse NuttX code, due to non-Unicode characters. I provided a > couple of PRs and fixed the issues, but it got me thinking... > >