Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?

[David Kastrup]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> The proper representation in Unicode is the use of the English
>> ‘quote marks’: those are the proper characters for the glyphs TeX
>> and Texinfo use for text fonts in the slots for ` and '.
>> Consequently, it is quite correct that those are the output for
>> the preformatted Info pages.
>
> See above.  It's not about translating ` and '.  Imagine that those
> are not used in the input to start with, i.e., that we used other
> markup to distinguish inline code, URLs etc.
>
> That curly quotes are "proper representations in Unicode" of ` and '
> is irrelevant.  We should not be asking how to represent ` and ',
> but how to demark things like inline code fragments in a structural
> layer and how to present them in a presentation layer.
>
> Besides which, the "proper representation" of ` and ' in Unicode
> is ` and '.  They are first-class Unicode citizens.

What about “those are the proper characters for the glyphs TeX and
Texinfo use for text fonts in the slots for ` and '” did you not
understand?

-- 
David Kastrup