[PATCH v3 0/5] documentation: minor fixes, plus a confusables check
[email protected] Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:07:33 +0300
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From: Niko Mauno <[email protected]> A small collection of documentation fixes. Several correct example snippets that misbehave when copied verbatim; the last two remove non-ASCII "confusable" characters and add a check to keep them out. * ref-manual: add the trailing space missing from :prepend examples, so readers don't risk inadvertent string concatenation. * ref-manual: drop superfluous spaces from :append examples. * dev-manual: add the whitespace around '=3D' that the Whinlatter (5.3) recipe parser now warns about. * documentation: replace non-ASCII confusables (curly quotes, en/em dashes, zero-width spaces, and no-break spaces outside tree output) with ASCII; e.g. a curly quote copied into a recipe causes a bitbake ParseError. Legitimate non-ASCII (box-drawing in directory trees, the no-break spaces the tree command emits there, accented contributor names, CJK) is left untouched. * tools: add the check-confusables script and wire it up as a pre-commit hook and in the Makefile "checks" target, in the same fashion as check-glossaries, to guard against regressions. Changes since v2: * Keep the no-break spaces that the tree command emits in directory listings, and make the check tolerate them on lines containing box-drawing characters (per review feedback). No-break spaces in prose and command examples are still converted. * Make the pre-commit hook pass filenames and check only the changed files (per review feedback); the Makefile "checks" target still scans the whole tree. * Stop treating the horizontal ellipsis as a confusable; the truncated git hashes in the release notes are left as-is, as it is a cosmetic character rather than a tooling hazard. * Add Quentin's Reviewed-by to the three whitespace/operator fixes that are unchanged since v1. Changes since v1: * Squashed the two confusable cleanups (recipe-style-guide and identify-component) into a single documentation-wide patch and extended it to all remaining occurrences. * Added the check-confusables tool, pre-commit hook and Makefile integration. * The three whitespace/operator fixes are unchanged. Niko Mauno (5): ref-manual: Fix occurrences of omitted space with :prepend ref-manual: Prune superfluous space with :append dev-manual: Fix missing whitespace around '=3D' operator documentation: Replace non-ASCII confusable characters with ASCII tools: Add check-confusables pre-commit hook .pre-commit-config.yaml | 5 + documentation/Makefile | 1 + .../contributor-guide/identify-component.rst | 4 +- documentation/contributor-guide/index.rst | 4 +- .../contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst | 8 +- .../contributor-guide/submit-changes.rst | 4 +- documentation/dev-manual/build-quality.rst | 2 +- documentation/dev-manual/debugging.rst | 14 +-- documentation/dev-manual/layers.rst | 2 +- documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst | 4 +- documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst | 10 +- .../migration-guides/release-notes-4.1.rst | 2 +- documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst | 4 +- .../ref-manual/devtool-reference.rst | 4 +- documentation/ref-manual/faq.rst | 6 +- documentation/ref-manual/qa-checks.rst | 2 +- documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 5 +- .../yocto-project-supported-features.rst | 10 +- .../test-manual/yocto-project-compatible.rst | 2 +- documentation/tools/check-confusables | 115 ++++++++++++++++++ .../transitioning-to-a-custom-environment.rst | 2 +- documentation/what-i-wish-id-known.rst | 14 +-- 22 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) create mode 100755 documentation/tools/check-confusables base-commit: 358519ca6406a89fee42c45dcaf63a37a374f33c --=20 2.47.3