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Re: string.h uses restrict


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: string.h uses restrict
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:12:04 +0200

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>  - your summary/subject was needlessly utf8-encoded.
>>      That makes it harder to read.
>
> For the sake of one apostrophe. It's a pity, I made Emacs do smart
> quotes in text mode, and now it looks like I need an exception. What's
> the problem with UTF-8 in this context, out of interest?

Didn't you notice how it was harder to read your UTF8-encoded Subject
line in what I quoted?  That was because you chose a UTF8-specific
single quote character.  It's better to just use the ascii single quote
as apostrophe. Then there's no need for any encoding.

> Thanks for the nit-list; I'll try to remember it exists and to refer
> to it next time.

Or just look at ChangeLog to see what other log entries look like.




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