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RE: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) |
> U+0060 shouldn't be used as a quote character, for the simple reason
> that it isn't one. U+0060 is uniquely defined as the GRAVE ACCENT
> character, and as such it doesn't form a pair with U+0027
> APOSTROPHE.
> (It forms a pair with U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT: `´ but the latter is
> outside of the ASCII range, and of course both are unsuitable as
> quotes.)
>
> So please get rid of U+0060 in all places where it is (ab)used as
> a quote character rather sooner than later, and use ‘’ (U+2018
> U+2019) instead. And if an ASCII-only alternative is needed, it
> should be either '' or "".
`...' is not quoting. ` and ' are not used as quote chars.
That is apparently one of the misconceptions underlying this
misguided "reform".
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/15