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Re: weird treatment of ' and `
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: weird treatment of ' and ` |
Date: |
12 Nov 2003 16:05:37 +0900 |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> > Yes, same here. Unless the author of that change can give a
> > compelling reason, I suggest you make that the standard.
>
> The reason is written as a comment in the code
> (mule-cmds.el) as below:
>
> ;; XFree86 4 has changed most of the fonts from their designed
> ;; versions such that `' no longer appears as balanced quotes.
>
> So, I suggest to undo the above change.
I also agree.
This change seems to have more negative effects than positive ones, and
has caused a great deal of confusion (and it's rather kludgey to boot).
I seem to recall that the last time we discussed this issue, there was
at least a vague consensus that it should be reversed*, but nothing was
ever done.
-Miles
--
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.