From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:31:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting
Message-ID: <9FDB0D39D62C46ABA8D2C5356E497BE1@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <8D139BC1FB1E4335B4375FB0F056BB0B@PhilipOakley>

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