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Re: capitalize-word can't see thru the ' quote mark in text-mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: capitalize-word can't see thru the ' quote mark in text-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 24 May 2001 19:52:42 +0300 |
> From: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>
> Date: 24 May 2001 13:34:31 +0200
>
> Markus Kuhn did some research on this issue:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
>
> In short: ` (0x60) is not a quoting character but the "grave accent".
> Using ASCII you've to use single quotes 'this way'.
Thanks for the pointer. This is something we should consider when
Emacs switched to Unicode-based representation of characters.
In any case, it's not easy to make that change, since lots of software
uses `this' as quoting style (Info is one notable example; Emacs doc
strings is another).