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bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:59:40 -0800
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On 11/11/2016 05:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
BTW \u2019 might not be the best choice, as I tweeted recently
(with corresponding quotes in each example):

   It's awkward for file names to use shell quote
   It’s awkward for word regex to use right quote
   Itʼs best to use apostrophe modifier (\u02BC)

But U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE is not the right character for “Groovin’” in English, as that word ends in a punctuation apostrophe, not a letter. If this happens to be awkward for regular expressions,we should extend the regular-expression syntax to make it less awkward.





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