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Subject: Re: Agreeing on some "rules" for packaging.
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:35:54 +0200
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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

> While we are at it, we could agree on quotation marks.  I know that it
> sounds like bikeshedding=E2=80=A6  However, it doesn=E2=80=99t look right=
 when some
> people use `' and others use ''.
>
> =E2=80=9CAlthough GNU programs traditionally used 0x60 (=E2=80=98`=E2=80=
=99) for opening and 0x27
> (=E2=80=98'=E2=80=99) for closing quotes, nowadays quotes =E2=80=98`like =
this'=E2=80=99 are typically
> rendered asymmetrically, so quoting =E2=80=98"like this"=E2=80=99 or =E2=
=80=98'like this'=E2=80=99
> typically looks better.=E2=80=9D [1]
>
> I=E2=80=99d prefer '' but will use `' if we agree on that.
>
> [1] https://gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters

Yes, that change in the GCS is recent, and I haven=E2=80=99t completely cha=
nged
my habits.

IMO the rule should be: use Unicode quotation marks wherever possible
(almost everywhere), use what Texinfo prescribes in Texinfo (that is,
like `this' and ``that''), and use what the GCS says elsewhere.

I tend to use ASCII quotation marks in source files; the main reason for
that is that typopunct-mode in Scheme files would be annoying (if you
know of other ways do use Unicode quotation marks in Emacs, lemme know.)

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.