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Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote
From: |
Ingo Schwarze |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Feb 2019 16:03:01 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hi Doug,
Doug McIlroy wrote on Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:39:41AM -0500:
> I'm puzzled. How can one "modernize" ascii?
One cannot. When i wrote
modernize -T ascii rendering
i meant: modernize the rendering when groff is run
with the "-T ascii" option.
> Or to put the question another way, what universally available
> character set does -T ascii evoke?
I'm not sure what "evoke" is intended to mean here.
If "evoke a character set" is intended to mean "produce output
using a character set", then the answer is "ASCII".
This patch doesn't change the charcter set used for output by "-T ascii".
It merely uses a different ASCII output character for \(oq because in
my humble opinion - and seemingly the opinion of some others - the
current rendering of \(oq in "-T ascii" looks somewhat anachronistic.
Yours,
Ingo
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01
- Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote, Doug McIlroy, 2019/02/01