On 12/7/19 5:56 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> So, we should write
> L’Oréal and L’chaim with U+2019
> and OʼHara, OʼConnor with U+02BC.
I wouldn’t use U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE in the Anglicized form of Irish
names. The Irish-language spelling is of course quite different, but even then I
On 07/12/2019 04:10, Bruno Haible wrote:
Wes Hurd wrote:
What I meant about smart quotes being dangerous was, if copying the output
text that contains smart quotes to use somewhere else (especially in code),
the smart quotes have to be manually replaced which is tedious for the user
(programmer)
Pádraig Brady wrote:
>It’s awkward for word regex to use right quote (\u2019)
>Itʼs best to use apostrophe modifier (\u02BC)
Unicode.org recommends:
* U+2019 is the preferred character for a punctuation apostrophe,
* U+02BC is a glottal stop, used by many languages as a letter of their
Wes Hurd wrote:
> What I meant about smart quotes being dangerous was, if copying the output
> text that contains smart quotes to use somewhere else (especially in code),
> the smart quotes have to be manually replaced which is tedious for the user
> (programmer).
It's quite the opposite: The smar
On 12/6/19 6:52 PM, Wes Hurd wrote:
What I meant about smart quotes being dangerous was, if copying the
output text that contains smart quotes to use somewhere else (especially
in code), the smart quotes have to be manually replaced which is tedious
for the user (programmer).
The user may not e
What I meant about smart quotes being dangerous was, if copying the output
text that contains smart quotes to use somewhere else (especially in code),
the smart quotes have to be manually replaced which is tedious for the user
(programmer).
The user may not even see that smart quotes are being used
* Tim Rühsen:
> On 12/5/19 4:12 PM, Wes Hurd wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems GNUlib quote encoding goes to Unicode smart quotes, which causes
>> command-line program output to be in smart quotes.
>> Smart quotes are dangerous for programmers and technical users, and should
>> be avoided in program o
On 12/5/19 7:12 AM, Wes Hurd wrote:
Smart quotes are dangerous for programmers and technical users
Sure, but *all* quotes are dangerous for programmers and technical
users. :-)
If you don’t want smart quotes, you can set LC_ALL=C in your environment.
On 12/5/19 4:12 PM, Wes Hurd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems GNUlib quote encoding goes to Unicode smart quotes, which causes
> command-line program output to be in smart quotes.
> Smart quotes are dangerous for programmers and technical users, and should
> be avoided in program output.
>
> Originally
Hi,
It seems GNUlib quote encoding goes to Unicode smart quotes, which causes
command-line program output to be in smart quotes.
Smart quotes are dangerous for programmers and technical users, and should
be avoided in program output.
Originally noticed with wget -
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/in
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