Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Just to emphasize that `...' quoting is not at all ugly on my terminal -
>> in fact, it's rather elegant.
>
> Indeed, the font I see in my Linux console renders them OK
> (pre-XFree86-4 style), but I think you're sadly in a minority.
>
>> However, using curly quotes is problematic.  I run on a Linux
>> virtual terminal.
>
> Curly quotes render just fine in my Linux console.  So it looks like
> you're in an even smaller minority.

When assuming that the world only consists of Alan and Stefan, the word
"minority" does not make a lot of sense.  Assuming that "$x works for
Stefan's setup and $y doesn't" means that "$x doesn't work for $u but $y
does." is impossible for all values of u is a bit self-centric.

-- 
David Kastrup