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Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:00:31 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 10:48:09 -0400
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, db48x@db48x.net, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, juri@linkov.net
>
> - In the first case, they use "@samp{---}" and it displays correctly.
> - In the second case, they use "---" and it displays correctly (as two
> HYPHEN-MINUS).
The second one is because the Texinfo manual intentionally doesn't use
UTF-8 as @documentencoding. Whereas we do (also intentionally).
> What I mean is that I think it would be better if our manuals displayed
> em dash (written as "---") as they are displayed in the texinfo manual:
> "--" (HYPHEN-MINUS, HYPHEN-MINUS), instead of as "—" (EM DASH). I find
> the former way to display this character easier to read in the monospace
> fonts that we typically use.
Others disagreed at the time, and so we decided quite some time ago to
use @documentencoding UTF-8 in all our manuals. (It was not only
about the dashes; UTF-8 encoding causes quite a lot of other Unicode
characters to be output by makeinfo.) I see no reason to reverse that
decision (and start all those arguments all over again).
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, (continued)
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- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Yuri Khan, 2021/10/05
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Juri Linkov, 2021/10/05
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/05
- RE: [External] : Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Drew Adams, 2021/10/05
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- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/07
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/07
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/07
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/07
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/08
- Display of em dashes in our documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/08
- Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/08
- Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/08
- Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation, Juri Linkov, 2021/10/10
- Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation, Daniel Brooks, 2021/10/08
- RE: [External] : Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation, Drew Adams, 2021/10/08
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/10/08
- Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/08