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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: process: changes.rst: Escape --version to fix
 Sphinx output
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:22:27 +0100
Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:

> Without double-backticks, Sphinx wrongly turns "--version" into
> "–version" with a Unicode EN DASH (U+2013), that is visually easy to
> confuse with a single ASCII dash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

This certainly seems worth addressing.  But I would *really* rather find
a way to tell Sphinx not to do that rather than making all of these
tweaks - which we will certainly find ourselves having to do over and
over again.  I can try to look into that in a bit, but if somebody were
to beat me to it ... :)

Thanks,

jon