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

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>>
>>> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>>> ...
>>>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with
>>>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it
>>>> look.  That round thing is consistent with how other digits are
>>>> rendered.
>>>>
>>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K
>>>>
>>>> (sorry for a URL to plus)
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html
>>>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.
>>>> --
>>>
>>> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick
>>> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and
>>> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and
>>> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a
>>> zero.
>>>
>>> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below:
>>
>> You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve
>> the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-)
>
> Not that I think such a change makes much sense.
>
> If there was a way to force use of a font whose numerals and I/O are
> more clearly distinguishable and we do so for all HTML documents we
> generate, that would be a good change that is not limited to these
> places, though.
>