From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:50:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8hz1eg1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y3bc2378.fsf@gnu.org> <4fjg1zzzzzzz.3lf.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538826572 6211 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2018 11:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 11:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Garreau\, Alexandre" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 13:49:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l5J-0001SL-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:49:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l7P-0002DV-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l7K-0002DQ-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l7J-0000ih-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l6w-0008Th-Dp; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1131 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g8l6w-0007RB-52; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:51:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <4fjg1zzzzzzz.3lf.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230249 Archived-At: > From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:22:14 +0200 > > In a world where unicode is increasingly present and confusion about its > characters increasingly problematic (typosquatting, etc.) wouldn’t it be > reasonable to expect unicode-related semantic functions to be provided > in most frameworks, systems and languages to allow better handling of > such problems, thus making that problem the interface’s one? I don't think I understand what this means in practice; please elaborate.