From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message? Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:12:14 +0100 Message-ID: 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> <444c19cb-4687-41c4-8291-481f5b5a42a1@default> <9e93866e-c6a4-42e3-b8b2-70fd6185b25e@default> <7294941d-a7c4-469c-9203-7949b2e34f0b@default> 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 1451293959 25810 80.91.229.3 (28 Dec 2015 09:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Per_Starb=C3=A4ck?= , Emacs Developers To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 10:12:29 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 1aDTqu-0006cC-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:12:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDTqt-0005A7-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:12:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDTqp-00059n-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:12:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDTqk-0001TH-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from disu.se ([71.19.156.204]:45691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDTqj-0001T7-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lf0-f51.google.com (mail-lf0-f51.google.com [209.85.215.51]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by disu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54C54BFB8 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:12:16 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disu.se; s=mail; t=1451293936; bh=Hk2CM3JGAE304F1wuQtyDT+slpnX9WCW/34SBTEwyk0=; h=In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:From; b=nM1QFEnBgpcS+0HSbpI2JwPBY7O4/GmI3htpV6Bj1BeUCPMW+DbqaIHFeLIpMGufX C2ltQJcnw2ip+rSAJUlK62B7jUapGkHFhxrgBq0mdzvx+a18q2/CLbS5WkWoWqM1ef ebhaD/9tgg0yHbcHnRoBzgwpyuNaCb+r5rg7fshQ= Original-Received: by mail-lf0-f51.google.com with SMTP id z124so190516045lfa.3 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:12:16 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.25.212.140 with SMTP id l134mr19285258lfg.118.1451293934647; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:12:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.25.64.7 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:12:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7294941d-a7c4-469c-9203-7949b2e34f0b@default> X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.19.156.204 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:196999 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > Any evidence for your claim that ' is in Unicode only for > compatibility between "left single quotation mark" and "right > single quotation mark"? Do you think that is even the most > common use case for ' in old-fashioned plain text, whether > typewriter or computer? ", yes, but '? I don't think so. Given the English=E2=80=99 propensity to still not use contractions, but to use single quotation marks when quoting, it=E2=80=99s not as clear cut as y= ou suggest either.