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Re: ASCII-only startup message?
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John Wiegley |
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Re: ASCII-only startup message? |
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Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:04:30 -0800 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Feel free to commit this if you must, although it feels almost ridiculous to
> me. An apostrophe is just a character, we shouldn't develop a mania about
> characters like that.
I agree with Eli here.
In fact, the whole issue of `' vs. Unicode printing characters seems like a
horribly bad decision. The amount of development time, bugs, documentation
issues, and discussion, that has been spent on a minor typographical point
that I imagine few people actually care about, was a mistake. Rather than
solving any real problems, we've created a whole bunch of annoying new
problems for ourselves, few of which have obvious answers -- or else these
threads wouldn't grow so long every time.
`This' reads perfectly fine to me, and is what I prefer to see. But that ship
has proverbially sailed; otherwise, I'd suggest we reverse this whole debacle,
and go back to the original behavior before any more time is lost.
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- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/29
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- Re: ASCII-only startup message?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- RE: ASCII-only startup message?, Drew Adams, 2015/12/29
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