[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: ASCII-only startup message?
From: |
Nikolai Weibull |
Subject: |
Re: ASCII-only startup message? |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:12:14 +0100 |
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> Any evidence for your claim that ' is in Unicode only for
> compatibility between "left single quotation mark" and "right
> single quotation mark"? Do you think that is even the most
> common use case for ' in old-fashioned plain text, whether
> typewriter or computer? ", yes, but '? I don't think so.
Given the English’ propensity to still not use contractions, but to
use single quotation marks when quoting, it’s not as clear cut as you
suggest either.
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, (continued)
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Per Starbäck, 2015/12/27
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Per Starbäck, 2015/12/27
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Per Starbäck, 2015/12/27
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Random832, 2015/12/28
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Per Starbäck, 2015/12/28
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?,
Nikolai Weibull <=
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Nikolai Weibull, 2015/12/28
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Random832, 2015/12/29
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Yuri Khan, 2015/12/29
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Random832, 2015/12/29
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29