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
next prev parent 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
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2015-04-20 20:16 ` bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Drew Adams
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