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authorThien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>2017-04-06 15:54:36 +0200
committerPeter Simons <simons@cryp.to>2017-07-18 08:42:38 +0200
commit55f6f9a88add2010a5ab7bcbd5f715a2801cf272 (patch)
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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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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.