On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Could you also add a rule so that gnulib's own "sc_maint" will
>> warn us if/when new instances creep in?
>
> Not easily; I wouldn't know where to begin.
>
> It shouldn't be a generic rule, because it's fine
> to have UTF-8 characters in .texi files. It'd be
> just for Gnulib, I guess, but I don't know where
> to put such rules.
How about this?
From ab014e830e9c12be9d04ffcc8a5e7a57bdaf3994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 10:50:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] maint: add a gnulib-local rule to keep non-ascii out of .texi
files
* cfg.mk (sc_keep_gnulib_texi_files_mostly_ascii): New rule,
so that "make sc_maint" will ding anyone who puts non-ascii
in any of gnulib's .texi files.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
cfg.mk | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 278e656..4460528 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2014-01-04 Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
+
+ maint: add a gnulib-local rule to keep non-ascii out of .texi files
+ * cfg.mk (sc_keep_gnulib_texi_files_mostly_ascii): New rule,
+ so that "make sc_maint" will ding anyone who puts non-ascii
+ in any of gnulib's .texi files.
+
2014-01-03 Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com>
freadable, fwritable, fwriting: declare with the "pure" attribute
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index f1bdec1..9d8b8f7 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
# This file is used via the maint.mk-using rule in Makefile.
+# This is a gnulib-specific rule to keep non-ascii characters
+# from creeping into our .texi files. There is nothing inherently
+# wrong with e.g., UTF-8 characters in texinfo sources, but here,
+# we had accumulated some non-ascii apostrophes and hyphens, and
+# they were recently replaced with their ascii analogs. This rule
+# should help keep things consistent.
+sc_keep_gnulib_texi_files_mostly_ascii:
+ @prohibit='[^[:alnum:][:punct:][:space:]]' \
+ in_vc_files='\.texi$$' \
+ halt='invalid bytes in gnulib .texi file' \
+ $(_sc_search_regexp)
+
local-checks-to-skip = \
sc_GFDL_version \
sc_GPL_version \
--
1.8.5.2.229.g4448466
