From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:35:39 +0300 Message-ID: <55DC530B.4040509@yandex.ru> References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> <55D2C080.2000806@cs.ucla.edu> <87wpwt5619.fsf@gnu.org> <55D36CB5.10803@cs.ucla.edu> <878u9879q9.fsf@igel.home> <19BD5D76-06A0-4FC0-A46F-760B2C27D321@gmail.com> <20150818194253.GE2262@acm.fritz.box> <0ac95dde-75ba-464b-90b2-1b19b348473e@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440502567 6887 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 11:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 13:36:01 2015 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 1ZUCWF-0005RV-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:35:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUCWE-0001xG-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUCWA-0001x9-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUCW7-0005Uw-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::235]:37470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUCW7-0005U3-BG; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: by widdq5 with SMTP id dq5so12150491wid.0; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 04:35:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TKiYUMS0RCPHzRQZ33Td4q2MGPM8+irayvFC15nTZZY=; b=pz3qIOunYOJED+kwU0hRw6KiioNEtfqxlAQG16H6f2nbzQB3MsTChD22j8tC6O2AhJ UowM8wkdS/FNdU3WWBUCorOLwALCXMoUXAfnCA6MyG4U/jyfHVGxT6bunaJuxi55+ToJ t1pAModS40rMJKydYUklTspcMYjMfNUseSkd0kHk7bCb8S18NcA38KPleKK79GYdjjUe 0gUCUk05koXV0CWMWBWtDK3Fqt0p8YuIknFwW9pzwHhH7FHICnj4x31jqNadh6qLoZpg NAK9AATTWrmOk5DxPUcWbTcRlTBqfsdpAtypWsgFFxMllDpP0h7TdT76dryREW3P/3r3 Otsg== X-Received: by 10.180.20.48 with SMTP id k16mr4137380wie.56.1440502550633; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 04:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.9.0.103] (nat.webazilla.com. [78.140.128.228]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id lk16sm2243006wic.6.2015.08.25.04.35.48 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 04:35:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/40.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::235 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:189149 Archived-At: On 08/24/2015 11:20 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > For overall ease of maintenance, I think we should discourage use of > curly quotes and other non-ASCII characters in comments within Emacs > sources and Emacs packages, because they are a _gratuitous_ impediment > to some developers' editing the sources. That is, they cause trouble > for some, while providing no _practical_ benefit to anyone. I would rephrase that instead to simply disallow non-ASCII characters in the *syntax* of Emacs comments (C and Lisp). If someone wants to write a comment in their native, non-English language, that is, of course, fine.