From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:43:16 +0300 Message-ID: <831th2h1m3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <87r3p9fxm2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2v0fiji.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150619090225.GA2743@acm.fritz.box> <87fv5kfrfa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83twtzhi9g.fsf@gnu.org> <877fqvfvby.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fv5jh8ls.fsf@gnu.org> <874mlzf71d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii 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 1435074588 5300 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2015 15:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org To: Nikolai Weibull Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 23 17:49:42 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 1Z7QSD-000380-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QSD-0003sj-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QMJ-0002BZ-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QME-0002Mc-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:59896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7QME-0002MC-97; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NQE00B00M31LW00@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:39:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NQE000SAM5AYKA0@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:39:10 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:187423 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:02:56 +0200 > From: Nikolai Weibull > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Eli Zaretskii , acm@muc.de, eggert@cs.ucla.edu,=20 > =09rms@gnu.org, Emacs Developers >=20 > almost all professionally printed literature uses real quotation > marks That's true, but most of them look quite differently from =E2=80= =9C..=E2=80=9D, at least with most monospaced fonts. So the issue is not as easy or simple as you seem to imply.