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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:21:19 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:05:42 +0200
> From: Nikolai Weibull <address@hidden>
> Cc: Brief Busters <address@hidden>, Stephen Turnbull <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden, Emacs Developers <address@hidden>
>
> > You want to see curved, compare with
> > Symbola or Lucida Console.
>
> So if a user happens to use these fonts they’ll be fine?
No.
> >> Do you mean that most users of Emacs who read their e-mail in a
> >> mono-spaced font may be confused by their font’s poor rendering of
> >> real quotation marks?
> >
> > No, I mean that seeing these quotes in scientific and professional
> > literature won't help, because they are typeset in a very different
> > typeface there.
>
> So they’re expected to be able to read but not be able to see past the
> minute differences between two symbols (which are their own mirror
> images, so really only one) in two different typefaces?
They shouldn't be expected to be able to distinguish between
confusingly similar, but subtly different characters. Let me give you
a few examples:
"
“
”
‟
〞
〟
“
„
Can you tell which one is which just by looking at them? (Assuming
your fonts are set to display all of them, that is.)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 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., Nikolai Weibull, 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., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Matthew Carter, 2015/06/23
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/29
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 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., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/24