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: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional. Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150618212538.GB4812@acm.fritz.box> <5583CF43.8080207@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434760470 10521 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2015 00:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 20 02:34:16 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 1Z66jd-00077Q-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 02:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z66jX-0004yl-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z66jL-0004yT-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z66jK-0005B3-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z66jH-0005AV-IV; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z66jG-000083-Re; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <5583CF43.8080207@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:13:55 -0700) 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:187332 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. ]]] > The default behavior when the user has not customized the > new variable is now to generate curved quotes when possible and to fall back on > straight quotes when in environments that can't handle curved quotes, as this > should yield better behavior on newer platforms without making things more > difficult on old-fashioned ones. That seems ideal. -- 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.