From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:56:58 -0700 Message-ID: <51C0F3CA.2080500@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87bo73a39w.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83ppvjqlcq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371599827 29397 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2013 23:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 19 01:57:07 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Up5lq-0002yz-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up5lp-0004Ap-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up5lm-00049U-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up5ll-00009u-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:33019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Up5ll-00009q-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4790339E8109; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:57:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oquxZg1MAcRH; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1EBE839E8106; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:56:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130514 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160619 Archived-At: On 06/18/13 16:03, Xue Fuqiao wrote: > "texi2any --info" still use the convention of backtick ` and straight > single quote ' to emulate curly quotes =E2=80=9C =E2=80=9D or =E2=80=98= =E2=80=99. That's not what I observe: texi2any outputs ASCII apostrophe ' for single quotes (both left and right) and ASCII quote " for double quotes (both left and right). This looks OK, though admittedly curly quotes look a bit nicer. > Emacs itself support Unicode > several years ago, what about replacing these characters? At least add > a switch to texi2any. It might be nice to add an option to do that, but I'm not sure I'd make it the default. Even today, I often use Emacs in environments that are ASCII-only, e.g., I may set LC_ALL=3DC to bypass some internationalization brain damage elsewhere (a performance issue, or a remote login issue).