Hi Oleg, I agree with you that the current quotes are irritating but I also think we have to follow the standards. Because of that I don't have a strong opinion about the quotes.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:21:13PM +0200, you wrote: > > The most funny thing about standards is that there are meny to > choose from, even for very narrow tech. or software field. Even zoo > of KOI encodings shows that. Yes, there is a zoo of KOI encodings. What is relevant in our case however is that there are RFC documents that describe precisely KOI8-R and KOI8-U and we have to follow these documents. > Thus, in case of cyrillic fonts for (text) console, i think *best > practice* is in case. Man pages, info manuals are using old `,' as > single quotes, and nobody going to change that. groff in utf-8 > console will, but this is very special case. It would be too bad if you are right here. Of course I can not be sure, but I don't want to belive that all these programs are not going to be fixed to respect the standards. The current quotes (the quotes both in the Terminus font and the other X fonts) are part of the pressure on the developers to fix their programs (Emacs, GNU Info, etc.). And no - I am not joking in this paragraph. > So, my position and very polite ask for you, is to change, at least KOI8-R, > or not UNICODE fonts to that what they was before. The RFC documents where KOI8-R and KOI8-U are defined specify the exact correspondence between KOI8 and Unicode. If we change the font for KOI8, then maybe we will have the change it for Unicode as well. > (and please don't follow nnicrosoft cultural hegemony: > <http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/#060726>, as in original url of this bugreport. I fill forward your opinion to the developer of the Terminus font. As I said I don't have a strong opinion about the quotes so I will agree with hiw whatever he decides. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
