[patch #8638] Remove non-ASCII Characters-in Comments

[Moritz Klammler]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8638>

                 Summary: Remove non-ASCII Characters-in Comments
                 Project: GNU Autoconf Archive
            Submitted by: moritz_klammler
            Submitted on: Sat 04 Apr 2015 04:29:58 AM CEST
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

The files `m4/ax_compiler_flags.m4`, `m4/ax_compiler_flags_cflags.m4`,
`m4/ax_compiler_flags_cxxflags.m4` and `m4/ax_compiler_flags_ldflags.m4`
contained non-ASCII characters that caused (at least if using Python 3) the
`macro2m4.py` script that is run as part of `make maintainer-all` to fail.

Since all offensive characters were apostrophes in comments, I simply replaced
them with ASCII 39 characters.  This fixes the immediate issue.  I assume that
ASCII encoding was deliberately chosen for maximum portability.  Otherwise, it
might be preferred to modify the Python script to use UTF-8 encoding thus
allowing such characters.

I have also attached a little Python script that can be used to check whether
a file contains non-ASCII characters.  I've run it over all `m4/*.m4` files
and it did not report any other issues.




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Date: Sat 04 Apr 2015 04:29:58 AM CEST  Name:
0001-Removed-non-ASCII-characters-in-comments.patch  Size: 5kB   By:
moritz_klammler

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=33525>
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Date: Sat 04 Apr 2015 04:29:58 AM CEST  Name: bad-characters.py  Size: 633B  
By: moritz_klammler

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=33526>

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