From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20120118.161204.348826368.wl@gnu.org> <20248.15413.907023.894588@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4x1uqv4pbx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <056566D61BA5441E860782777E736F44@us.oracle.com> <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> <20120120074922.GA3095@acm.acm> <4F1929BA.7020004@cs.ucla.edu> <838vl24thl.fsf@gnu.org> <4F19E7FC.40301@cs.ucla.edu> <83zkdh2zfz.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327213864 4195 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2012 06:31:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, ulm@gentoo.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 22 07:30:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx8-0007g6-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:30:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx7-0003QT-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx4-0003QF-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx3-0000Bd-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx3-0000BY-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roqx2-0000AK-3j; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:30:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <83zkdh2zfz.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:10:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:147825 Archived-At: > We routinely place more requirements on Emacs developers than on Emacs users, > and in particular we assume that Emacs developers can routinely view and > otherwise deal with non-ASCII characters when they need to. I can "deal with" nonascii characters, but some of them look rather ugly. Some of them cause the display to get out of whack, probably due to mismatch between how wide they really display and how wide Emacs thinks they are. I don't want this to happen in my error messages and documentation! Can you please send me a message containing the character proposed for this? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/