Re: address@hidden: Re: quotation characters]

[Karl Berry]

    If it's so hard to convince RMS that modern style is different,
    maybe it's easier to convince him to drop this subject.

Please, no.  It wasn't rms's idea to bring this up.  It was ours (mine),
and the reason is that GNU developers ask the question, repeatedly.  I
don't want to go back to him now and say forget it!  

Anyway, the current text (intentionally) has loopholes which let people
do whatever they want.  (Which they would, regardless.)

    Things that make sense to state in a standards document are things that

The GNU standards are not much like POSIX or C or whatever.

All I want to know is what I asked about the gnulib quote module ...

Thanks,
k