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Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2014, 11:31 UTC
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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
..
>>
>>> While at it, use 00 for ASCII NUL to avoid any confusion with the 
>>> letter O.
> (remember its quotation is consumed by ascidoc) looked too much like 
> an
I mis-remembered. It's not quoted.
> Looking around some more, it's as if "0)" is special cased in some 
> conversion to HTML.

This looks to be an issue of the browser display font (Chrome/Chromium/Firefox) where it's almost impossible to distinguish 0 and o without other numbers or letters being present for context. The old kernel.org page appears to specify the font differently and thus provides a clear rendering.

Philip
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  1. doc: fix 'git status --help' character quotingPhilip Oakley, Oct 19, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2014
  3. Philip OakleyOct 20, 2014
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