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: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:26:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbefhihy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <55826DCC.9040404@cs.ucla.edu> <55850208.3080605@cs.ucla.edu> <5585C279.3030607@cs.ucla.edu> <55871590.8010406@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434986820 14472 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2015 15:27:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 22 17:26:52 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 1Z73cY-00079Y-8c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:26:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73cX-0007Wm-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:26:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73cK-0007II-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73cH-0007VZ-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z73cH-0007VJ-08; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NQC00M00QNN9Z00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:26:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NQC00ME4QW77V30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:26:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:187383 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:55:27 -0400 > Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org > > For instance, how will this affect developers whose terminals won't > display curly quotes, in editing the source code? > How does Emacs display curly quotes on such terminals? In those cases, we use a display table to display them as their ASCII equivalents. (The fact that the terminal doesn't support the curved quotes is determined at Emacs startup.)