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Re: `' quotes in messages
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: `' quotes in messages |
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:40:45 -0700 (PDT) |
From: Russ Allbery <address@hidden>
Date: 26 Oct 2000 17:05:05 -0700
> On a tangent, do we still want to use `...' quotes?
See <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html> for an extensive
argument on this subject which convinced me, even though I'm really
annoyed by it.
It convinced me too, at first. But then I tried to convert GNU tar to
use the more "standard" quotes. This turned into a real mess, and was
the topic of extended controversy on the gnits mailing list. The
consensus opinion, which I gradually came to share, was to leave well
enough alone. So this week I spent an unhappy hour or two undoing the
damage by reverting to the `traditional GNU quotes' in GNU tar.
I assume that we're talking about US-ASCII English here. If we're
talking about non-English US-ASCII text (like shell source code) then
obviously one should use whatever US-ASCII character is appropriate.
And if we are talking about Unicode/ISO10646/etc English, then it's
clear that one should avoid the three characters `, ', and ", as none
of those Unicode characters are used in ordinary English text.
For some reason the whole subject reminds me of RS-232 connectors....
- Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite, (continued)
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- Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite, Daniele Arena, 2000/10/25
- Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/25
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- Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/26
- `' quotes in messages (was Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite), Raja R Harinath, 2000/10/26
- Re: `' quotes in messages (was Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite), Russ Allbery, 2000/10/26
- Re: `' quotes in messages,
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