unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, drew.adams@oracle.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:24:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0e29fbcc-b9b7-0aed-b644-d45a42a0200d@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fjg1zzzzzzz.3lf.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu>

Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> ouldn’t it be
> reasonable to expect unicode-related semantic functions to be provided
> in most frameworks, systems and languages to allow better handling of
> such problems

What a wonderful world that would be! But it's not the world we live in. Even 
Emacs misdisplays many of these characters now. And other tools that I routinely 
use (Firefox, Thunderbird, Gnome terminal) are even worse. We can't reasonably 
assume that confusable characters will be displayed nicely everywhere, not even 
five or ten years from now.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 22:24 Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 22:52 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-03  0:00   ` Drew Adams
2018-02-03  0:09     ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-03  0:39       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-03  8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-03 16:16   ` Drew Adams
2018-02-03 17:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04  1:16       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-04  1:25         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-02-04  2:05           ` Drew Adams
2018-02-04  2:06           ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-04 10:34           ` Alan Third
2018-02-04 15:36             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-02-04 17:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04 21:31                 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-04 11:15         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-04 15:54           ` Drew Adams
2018-02-04 14:47         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-04  1:55       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-04  2:10         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-05  1:06       ` Why "symbol's value" error about a list? Richard Stallman
2018-02-05 20:35         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-05 21:46           ` Drew Adams
2018-02-06  4:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-06  7:32               ` Tim Cross
2018-02-06  7:40                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-06 15:45                 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-06 15:45               ` Drew Adams
2018-02-06 19:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-06 14:51           ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-06 11:27         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-06 14:53           ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-06 18:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-07  2:40               ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-07  3:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-06 18:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-05  1:06       ` Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Richard Stallman
2018-02-03 18:13 ` Aaron Ecay
2018-02-04  2:05   ` Drew Adams
2018-02-04  4:51   ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-04  9:47     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-02-04 15:04     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-04 17:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04 19:36         ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-04 19:55           ` Philipp Stephani
2018-02-04 20:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04 20:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-04 20:48               ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-04 20:59                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-10-05  0:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-05  1:01   ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-05  8:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-05 23:02       ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06  0:20         ` Drew Adams
2018-10-06  9:14           ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-06 14:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-06 14:57             ` Drew Adams
2018-10-06 15:42               ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 16:10             ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06 16:17           ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-07  1:13             ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08  3:51             ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-06 10:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-06 15:51           ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06 16:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-06 18:03               ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06 18:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-06 19:18                   ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06 19:30                   ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-06 19:32                   ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 11:22         ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 11:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-06 12:10             ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 14:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-24 22:25                 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-06 13:15             ` Unicode security-issues workarounds elsewhere [Was: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 14:01               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-06 16:24           ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-10-06 16:40             ` Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Stefan Monnier
2018-10-09 14:43         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-09 15:30           ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-09 16:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-09 17:07               ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-09 19:18                 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-10-10  9:39                   ` Aaron Ecay
2018-10-10 11:18                     ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-10 14:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-10 15:18                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-10 15:43                     ` Drew Adams
2018-10-10 16:08                     ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-15 20:30                       ` Juri Linkov
2018-10-10  3:58                 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-10  3:57           ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-10 14:41             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-11  5:01               ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-06 15:40   ` eval-last-sexp / C-x C-e, and punctuation like `?’' [Was: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?)] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-16 12:48   ` Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Garreau, Alexandre

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=0e29fbcc-b9b7-0aed-b644-d45a42a0200d@cs.ucla.edu \
    --to=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
    --cc=drew.adams@oracle.com \
    --cc=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=galex-713@galex-713.eu \
    --cc=npostavs@users.sourceforge.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).