[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "doc/faq: replace non-breaking spaces (0xA0) with normal space"

Marton Balint cus at passwd.hu
Sun Jan 7 20:46:05 EET 2024



On Sun, 7 Jan 2024, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> On date Saturday 2024-01-06 15:49:56 -0600, Marth64 wrote:
>> This reverts commit 6442d1ddd62160e96c686c30648b6111e3e0c264.
>>
>> A valid point was made, that the non-breaking space will cause this text
>> to render better by ensuring the unit never seperates from the number.
>
> I'm not convinced the non-breaking space was a good idea in the first
> place, the fact that there is a single instance in the whole
> documentation confirms this.
>
> In fact even if the unit and value are not on the same line we don't
> miss much in terms of readability.
>
> On the other hand it is very hard to edit such non-printable
> characters, and you can bet what as much as you can that most
> contributors will not get it right or consistent.

Hard to edit how? It is not like we are in the 80s using ASCII charset and 
editors with 80x25 text console to edit the files...

The whole topic is kind of bikesheddy, so I don't really mind either way, 
I just don't see the benefit of using @tie{} or whatever instead of proper 
utf8 chars any half decent editor would support.

Regards,
Marton


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