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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
Date: | Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:55:34 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 |
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
What I object to is_non-working_ characters - characters which appear on nobody's keyboard (see Bastien's question about typing curly quotes) and are problematic to display (See Eli's recent post, for example).
So you object to having form-feeds in Elisp source code as well? After all, form-feeds are "non-working" by your definition. :-)
As for the philosophical issue, I'm afraid we'll just have to disagree. In my experience, hackers prefer to scratch the itches they feel personally. Discouraging non-ASCII characters even in relatively innocuous contexts like doc strings and diagnostics is connected to putting off the task of making it easier to edit text with these characters.
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