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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5536F01B.2040606@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbnih8bwh.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But yes, `...' is ugly.  It used to be pretty back in the XFree86<4.0
> days, when they were symmetric

And before that, some character-based video display terminals displayed `...' 
nicely.  There was good technical justification for this, as the 1965 draft 
definition of ASCII said 0x27 was the code for an opening single quotation mark. 
  However, standardization headed in a different direction long ago and nowadays 
`...' is ugly everywhere.  For more of the history, please see:

Kuhn M. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007).
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html





  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 18:39 bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Paul Eggert
2015-04-20 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  0:18   ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21  0:53     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  1:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  1:30       ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  1:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  3:45       ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21 14:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:04           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 18:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 19:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 20:01                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-22  7:00                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-22 13:52                       ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 13:59                         ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-22 14:52                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 23:36                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  0:23                               ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23  6:45                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  9:14                                   ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 10:22                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 11:15                                       ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 17:32                                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 18:23                                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 19:38                                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 20:07                                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 20:12                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 23:24                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-24  0:24                                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  4:47                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 19:47                                           ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 19:57                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23  2:19                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23  6:45                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 14:51                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 15:32                                     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 17:11                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 19:55                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23 20:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 20:13                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  6:11                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24  3:04                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-24  6:46                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 13:43                               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-21 18:44             ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-21 20:30               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-22  0:49                 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-04-22 23:37           ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  6:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:35       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 18:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:37           ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 19:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1406.1429745828.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:11   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 12:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 12:45       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 13:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1407.1429745888.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 19:42     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13  7:30 ` bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes " Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 12:16   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-13 15:13     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 22:33       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-14  3:24         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-14 10:49           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15  7:49             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 17:24               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 18:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 19:09                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 21:13                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 21:48                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 23:52                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16  0:08                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  0:11                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  1:48                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16  8:27                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-19 23:27                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-20  2:22                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21  7:21                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-21 10:01                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21 14:58                                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-22  3:41                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  9:51                               ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-16  1:23                           ` Drew Adams
2015-05-16  6:20                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16  7:36                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14  7:10         ` bug#20385: missing charset for non-ASCII text/x-patch MIME parts in Thunderbird Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14  7:20         ` bug#20385: Support curved quotes in doc strings Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 14:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:05             ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 20:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:30                 ` Ivan Shmakov
     [not found]         ` <87h9rfiqh1.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net>
2015-05-14  8:28           ` bug#20385: missing charset for non-ASCII text/x-patch MIME parts in Thunderbird Stephen J. Turnbull
     [not found] <<1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2015-04-20 20:16 ` bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <<jwvtwwabnhp.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]     ` <<jwvvbgqs2ud.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]         ` <<83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<jwvk2x59x4g.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]             ` <<83vbgp49ve.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <<jwv8udl9syp.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]                 ` <<83pp6x45x5.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                   ` <<5536ACB3.9040707@yandex.ru>
     [not found]                     ` <<83lhhk4phe.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                       ` <<fe3d90cd-056a-49a6-a049-6df07e710663@default>
     [not found]                         ` <<87a8y0jmba.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                           ` <<6837d058-ba18-461b-8af6-2c4e6d767348@default>
     [not found]                             ` <<55383081.4010106@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                               ` <<87a8xzae0o.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                                 ` <<55389500.8000404@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                   ` <<878udj9pfq.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                                     ` <<5538C7EC.9010105@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                       ` <<877ft39juq.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                                         ` <<55392C91.1010300@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                           ` <<84f4aea9-c3ef-44c5-ac06-0df72d223e8c@default>
     [not found]                                             ` <<55394A2E.8020002@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                               ` <<f978526c-c5e3-405d-ae75-63b9ed5d4537@default>
     [not found]                                                 ` <<83lhhizjqw.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 20:15                                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  6:12                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <<55394E30.8040307@yandex.ru>
     [not found]                         ` <<83oamezk77.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                           ` <<4b159230-cd7e-4cb9-a778-3ad7ed2ae301@default>
     [not found]                             ` <<83k2x2ys1b.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-04-24 14:11                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 14:40                                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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