Merge pull request #6983 from aditya-deshpande-arm/backport-check-files-characters
[Backport 2.28] check_files.py: Allow specific Box Drawings characters to be used
diff --git a/tests/scripts/check_files.py b/tests/scripts/check_files.py
index d20ec2e..352b55e 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/check_files.py
+++ b/tests/scripts/check_files.py
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
heading = "Invalid UTF-8 or forbidden character:"
- # Only allow valid UTF-8, and only white-listed characters.
+ # Only allow valid UTF-8, and only other explicitly allowed characters.
# We deliberately exclude all characters that aren't a simple non-blank,
# non-zero-width glyph, apart from a very small set (tab, ordinary space,
# line breaks, "basic" no-break space and soft hyphen). In particular,
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@
'\u2070\u2071\u2074-\u208E\u2090-\u209C', # Superscripts and Subscripts
'\u2190-\u21FF', # Arrows
'\u2200-\u22FF', # Mathematical Symbols
+ '\u2500-\u257F' # Box Drawings characters used in markdown trees
])
# Allow any of the characters and ranges above, and anything classified
# as a word constituent.