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Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:19:13 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux)

>> > I don't think this a real life problem that is worth making
>> > the code less readable over.
>> 
>> I agree. There are more simple solutions.


> Please explain why 1) is more readable than 2):

> 1) ;; Use U+2014 (EM DASH) to underline if possible, else U+002D
> (HYPHEN-MINUS)
>    (if (char-displayable-p ?-) ?- ?-)))

> 2) (if (char-displayable-p ?\u2014) ?\u2014 ?-)))

Check the current code.  It's a mix of the two.
I changed it not because of any web server/client issue, but simply because
the resulting code is more readable.


        Stefan




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