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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Nikolai Weibull |
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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:08:37 +0200 |
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > For instance, how will this affect developers whose terminals won't
> > > display curly quotes, in editing the source code?
> > > How does Emacs display curly quotes on such terminals?
>
> > In those cases, we use a display table to display them as their ASCII
> > equivalents.
> Are the ASCII equivalents of the two curly braces ` and '?
I assume so, even though the true “equivalents” are ‘'’ and ‘'’.
ASCII doesn’t have a unique left and right single (or double)
quotation mark, instead employing a straight “bastardization” of one.
> That is not a grave problem, but it is a problem.
Great pun, Richard :-)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/18
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/19
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/20
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/20
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/20
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/21
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/21
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/22
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/22
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/25
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Oleh Krehel, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/24