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[bug #62638] maybe call U+0027 a "single quote" in some contexts
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[bug #62638] maybe call U+0027 a "single quote" in some contexts |
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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 23:36:04 -0400 (EDT) |
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Summary: maybe call U+0027 a "single quote" in some contexts
Project: GNU troff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Wed 15 Jun 2022 10:36:02 PM CDT
Category: General
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Wed 15 Jun 2022 10:36:02 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
In bug #60836, I said:
I wonder whether, in a coding rather than a typesetting context, "neutral
apostrophes" is a better descriptor than "single quotes." Programmers are
certainly more used to calling them single quotes; and even to noncoders,
either term should be understandable. Also, as delimiters for strings, they
function semantically more as quotes than as apostrophes.
Branden reasonably counters, "I can use ["neutral apostrophe"] unambiguously
in any context." There's something to be said for consistent terminology, a
point Ralph recently made
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-05/msg00010.html>.
On the third hand, Ralph's point was about consistency in usage between groff
docs and the rest of the world, which might just as well argue in favor of the
term readers are more used to in contexts of coding in other languages, most
of which deem that character a single quote.
So whether anything should be changed is an open question. I don't feel
strongly about either term.
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