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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann@t-online.de, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [wl@gnu.org: changing line heights]
Date: 26 Sep 2003 00:47:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvfrgsa5a.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A2fQT-0000WG-Ig@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> There is a bug, perhaps, but taking out that change is not a very good
> fix.  That would make ` and ' look too similar (or so it is said).

I find the opposite. U+2018 and U+2019 look very similar, while ` and
' are noticeably different. From memory, the original change was
proposed for aesthetic reasons because a lot of documentation uses `
and ' as quotation marks, and the original characters are so
different that they look strange in that context to someone used to
double ' or the Unicode quote characters.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <86isni5yyh.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org>
     [not found] ` <20030924.144951.177659448.wl@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <86brta5noi.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org>
2003-09-25  8:47     ` [wl@gnu.org: changing line heights] Werner LEMBERG
2003-09-25  9:23       ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-25 23:21         ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 23:30           ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-26 14:54             ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25  9:56       ` Gerd Moellmann
2003-09-25 12:58         ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-09-25 23:21         ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-26  0:37           ` Miles Bader
2003-09-26  1:22             ` James Clark
2003-09-26  1:40               ` Miles Bader
2003-09-27  2:31                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-26  5:32               ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-09-26  6:14                 ` James Clark
2003-09-27  2:31                   ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-27  5:56                     ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-09-28 15:33                       ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-27 20:20                   ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-09-26  7:23               ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-26 14:03               ` James H.Cloos Jr.
2003-09-27  2:15         ` Kenichi Handa
2003-09-29  1:41           ` Kenichi Handa
2003-09-25 23:21       ` Richard Stallman
2003-09-25 23:47         ` Jason Rumney [this message]

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