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author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> | 2017-04-06 15:54:36 +0200 |
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committer | Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> | 2017-07-18 08:42:38 +0200 |
commit | 55f6f9a88add2010a5ab7bcbd5f715a2801cf272 (patch) | |
tree | ed699b99e4636b1c4b216112420700a713002527 | |
parent | e9fe18747b1270a29e72dd93108ba3ac2c85fa29 (diff) | |
download | autoconf-archive-55f6f9a88add2010a5ab7bcbd5f715a2801cf272.tar.gz |
Add character-encoding guideline
* doc/contribute.texi (Macro Format):
Add a blurb on the preferred character encoding
and an example of applying the guideline.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contribute.texi b/doc/contribute.texi index 61922aa..019ea14 100644 --- a/doc/contribute.texi +++ b/doc/contribute.texi @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Each macro in the Archive has an all-upper-case name with the prefix @code{AX_}. The macro is stored in a file with the same name, in lower case, and with the suffix @code{.m4}. +Unless absolutely necessary, the file contents should be in ASCII. +For example, use apostrophe (U+27) for quoting identifiers +instead of Unicode quotation mark characters U+2018, U+2019. The file should begin with a header comment containing three named sections: synopsis, description, and license. |