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Re: [PATCH 0/4] quotearg improvements
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [PATCH 0/4] quotearg improvements |
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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:16:50 +0100 |
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:22, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I am very fond of my ` characters and hate the fact that stupid
> > standards broke what was the obviously useful thing to do ...
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> I don't know what you consider to be the "obviously useful thing".
> I find Markus Kuhn's write-ups at
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> very convincing.
In addition, you will still have the obviously useful thing that
people from all other countries have (Unicode quotes) as long as you
do not run in the C locale.
> In general, you probably don't want to put into standards.texi rules that
> have never been experimented, and never been tried on real users?
Yes, that was the idea.
Paolo
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] quotearg: do not use grave accent for left quote, (continued)
[PATCH 3/4] quotearg: use Unicode quotes in UTF-8 locales when no translation is available, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/12/19
Re: [PATCH 0/4] quotearg improvements, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/12/19
Re: [PATCH 0/4] quotearg improvements, Karl Berry, 2011/12/19