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: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:38:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <21886.63821.737412.422567@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434397903 28219 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2015 19:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:51:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 21:51:31 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 1Z4aPq-0003uM-Lb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:51:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aPq-0007hA-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aPm-0007ge-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aPk-0006IZ-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aPV-0005Ph-2B; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aDL-0005Rc-Ux; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:38:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <21886.63821.737412.422567@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:11:57 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:187198 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > (It forms a pair with U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT: `ยด but the latter is > outside of the ASCII range, and of course both are unsuitable as > quotes.) Whether they are suitable as quotes in Emacs is for us to decide. > The following article (written 15 years ago) summarises the situation > well: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html That article may provide pertinent information or arguments, but it has no authority over us. In the GNU Project, we do not consider outside standards as decisions or commands; rather, they are part of the context in which we consider what is the best thing to do. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.