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: ASCII-only startup message? Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:49 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <567F3A5D.80502@cs.ucla.edu> References: <567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu> <8360zlhy7x.fsf@gnu.org> <567EE043.9020109@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4chgh5q.fsf@gnu.org> <567EED47.1090700@cs.ucla.edu> <83si2pgci8.fsf@gnu.org> <567F22B1.9040702@cs.ucla.edu> <2dc99848-b6d5-4f53-b22c-66e29d15647c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451178612 580 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 01:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 01:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 02:10:01 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 1aCzqR-0008TB-QM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCzqR-0004BO-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:09:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCzqM-00049Q-Tm for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCzqJ-0000GA-NB for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:52981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCzqJ-0000Er-IF; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A0160095; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id X-41J9npaE6D; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1843160CC0; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:49 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id sdLz8K5tGplm; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C043D160095; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:09:49 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <2dc99848-b6d5-4f53-b22c-66e29d15647c@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:196949 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > I have never seen any doc or typography guideline that favors > a quotation mark over an apostrophe for English contractions, > possessives, or non-word plurals. Section 6.2 of the Unicode Standard states: U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred where the character is to= =20 represent a punctuation mark, as for contractions: =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99ve= been here before.=E2=80=9D In=20 this latter case, U+2019 is also referred to as a punctuation apostrophe. http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ch06.pdf