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Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quot
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote. |
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Tue, 6 Jun 2017 14:21:38 -0400 |
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On 2017-06-06 09:55, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Clément Pit-Claudel
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2017-06-06 04:21, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Also, contractions like don't
>>> should be avoided anyway.
>>
>> That doesn't matter much in the long run, I think: we intend to support
>> languages in which apostrophes in the middle of words can't be avoided.
>
> In that long run, I have more news for you: there are languages which
> have a letter that looks almost, but not exactly, like the apostrophe
> punctuation mark, but is encoded differently. (E.g. Ukrainian, U+02BC
> Modifier Letter Apostrophe, as opposed to U+2019 Right Single
> Quotation Mark).
>
> Good luck substituting the correct character in each case given only '
> U+0027 Apostrophe.
Do you mean that in these languages the casual way is to write ', though the
formal way would be ʼ?
Clément.
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., (continued)
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Andreas Schwab, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Andreas Schwab, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Yuri Khan, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Yuri Khan, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Andreas Schwab, 2017/06/07
- RE: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Drew Adams, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Dmitry Gutov, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/07