From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:28:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv2x1jbo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20150831061236.27796.57762@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55E3F434.2060507@yandex.ru> <55E496DC.1030608@cs.ucla.edu> <877foas9jh.fsf@gmail.com> <20150901190014.GB1997@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441171705 28004 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 05:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 05:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Oleh Krehel , Dmitry Gutov To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 07:28:24 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 1ZX0at-0000Jg-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX0as-0004BO-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX0ao-0004BB-SO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX0an-0002ww-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX0aj-0002vd-RB; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43107 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX0aj-0001ox-29; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66830E327D; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 07:28:11 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:07:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:189447 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Just to emphasize that `...' quoting is not at all ugly on my terminal - >> in fact, it's rather elegant. > > Indeed, the font I see in my Linux console renders them OK > (pre-XFree86-4 style), but I think you're sadly in a minority. > >> However, using curly quotes is problematic. I run on a Linux >> virtual terminal. > > Curly quotes render just fine in my Linux console. So it looks like > you're in an even smaller minority. When assuming that the world only consists of Alan and Stefan, the word "minority" does not make a lot of sense. Assuming that "$x works for Stefan's setup and $y doesn't" means that "$x doesn't work for $u but $y does." is impossible for all values of u is a bit self-centric. -- David Kastrup