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Peter Dillinger 795f3bd61f Fix check-sources.sh non-ASCII check and remove non-ASCII from sources (#14729)
Summary:
The non-ASCII character check in check-sources.sh used git grep -P (Perl regex), which requires git compiled with PCRE support. On systems without it, the command fails with exit code 128, which is != 1 (no match), so the check always reported a violation -- effectively dead.

Even in CI where git has PCRE2 support, the check was silently broken: git grep -P uses PCRE2 in UTF mode by default, which interprets [\x80-\xFF] as a Unicode codepoint range (U+0080 to U+00FF). Characters like em-dash (U+2014), arrows (U+2192), and math symbols (U+2248, etc.) fall outside that range and were not detected. Only Latin-1 Supplement characters (U+0080-U+00FF) would have been caught.

Replace with LC_ALL=C git grep using bash $'[\x80-\xff]' literal byte range, which works with basic regex in the C locale, and replace all non-ASCII characters in non-excluded source files:
- em-dash to --
- arrow to ->
- math symbols to ASCII equivalents (~=, <=, >=)
- box-drawing characters to ASCII art

Also exclude .github/ from the check, as scripts there can use non-ascii without disrupting RocksDB builds on non-UTF-8 systems.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/14729

Test Plan: manual / CI (make check-sources passes clean)

Reviewed By: hx235

Differential Revision: D104692574

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 1d884c21056dcd83558b825a04b867f1c08e3f45
2026-05-11 17:02:22 -07:00
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