On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:22, Bruno Haible 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
> htt
Hi Karl,
> > In non-Unicode locales, the left-pointing
> > grave accent is replaced by the closing quote.
> >
> > 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 kn
very convincing.
I find the tone quite high-handed. But never mind. I don't want to
debate Markus' web pages, it's not germane.
Now, in this particular case, GCC has been doing the experiment:
I know. And no one I've seen has complained about it (even me; not that
I'm happy about it,
Hi Karl,
> In non-Unicode locales, the left-pointing
> grave accent is replaced by the closing quote.
>
> 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
In non-Unicode locales, the left-pointing
grave accent is replaced by the closing quote.
I am very fond of my ` characters and hate the fact that stupid
standards broke what was the obviously useful thing to do ... but have
nothing substantive to add to the discussion.
If the patch
On 12/19/2011 09:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
For more information, seehttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
Oops, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html :)
Paolo
From: Paolo Bonzini
The first two patches are improvement in documentation. The first
fixes a broken link, the second avoids the distinction between
British and American locales: most people are unaware of the
different typographic conventions and also there is usually no
English translation fil
