On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:22, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > I am very fond of my ` characters and hate the fact that stupid > > standards broke what was the obviously useful thing to do ... > > I don't know what you consider to be the "obviously useful thing". > I find Markus Kuhn's write-ups at > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html > very convincing.
In addition, you will still have the obviously useful thing that people from all other countries have (Unicode quotes) as long as you do not run in the C locale. > In general, you probably don't want to put into standards.texi rules that > have never been experimented, and never been tried on real users? Yes, that was the idea. Paolo
